PORT TOWNSEND — The
Rhododendron Festival’s carnival will come to Memorial Field
this year, despite reports the
county was not going to allow
the event to take place in that
location.
“We never said we wouldn’t
allow the carnival to take place
on the field,” said Jefferson

County Public Works Director
Monte Reinders.
“We were looking into other
opportunities, but there were no
other acceptable alternatives.”
The 79th annual Rhododendron Festival takes place May
12-17, with the carnival scheduled to take place Thursday
through Saturday, May 15-17.
The carnival was situated on
city streets until 2006 when the
new City Hall construction

began, and that building along
with subsequent renovations to
Pope Marine Park meant there
was no other downtown location
capable of handling the large
carnival rides.

Kiddie rides
“If we couldn’t use the field,
we’d be restricted to using the
kiddie rides, and that would
cost us a lot of money,” said fes-

tival Treasurer Melanie Bozak.
“If we couldn’t have the big
rides, we may as well just cancel the carnival.”
Bozak said the festival’s cut
from the carnival, which ranges
from $5,000 to $8,000, covers the
cost of the field’s rental along
with traveling expenses to other
parades throughout the year.
The carnival company has
put down a $2,000 damage
deposit for the field, according

to Reinders.
“The field is subject to damage if it gets wet, and we need
to be protected,” Reinders said.
The county will meet with
festival representatives in early
May to assess weather conditions, but both parties expect
the carnival will proceed as
planned unless the weather is
extremely wet.
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An American flag put up by volunteers helping search the area stands atop the ruins Tuesday of a house left
at the end of a deadly mudslide from the hillside seen about a mile behind.

PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

PORT TOWNSEND — The San Juan
Taqueria fills a unique culinary niche in
this city where the West Sims Way McDonald’s is the only fast food chain to be seen.
“This is healthy food. It’s quick and
affordable, which is something you don’t
find in this town,” owner Lani Wallace said
of her eatery.
Open seasonally at the corner of San
Juan and F streets, Wallace began the
taqueria’s third stretch of serving made-toorder tacos, burritos, salads, tostadas and
quesadillas earlier this month.
The business is run out of a 10-foot-by20-foot trailer on a rented lot, and its menu
items are priced from $2.75 to $8.75.
“This is all California style,” she said.
“We don’t have crispy tacos, and the burritos aren’t all sauced up.
“I’ve always loved Mexican food. I like
the restaurants in town, but I wanted to
offer something that wasn’t here already.”

ARLINGTON — A scientist working
for the government warned 15 years ago
about the potential for a catastrophic
landslide in the riverside community
where the collapse of a rain-soaked hillside over the weekend killed at least 14
people and left scores missing.
The death toll was expected to rise
because authorities said there are more

than 170 people unaccounted for, nearly
four days after the mountain slope gave
way at roughly 11 a.m. Saturday.
As rescue workers slogged through the
muck and rain in search of victims Tuesday, word of the 1999 report raised questions about why residents were allowed to
build homes below the slope and whether
officials in Snohomish County had taken
proper precautions.
“I knew it would fail catastrophically in

a large-magnitude event,” though not
when it would happen, said Daniel Miller,
a geomorphologist who was hired by the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to do the
study.
“I was not surprised.”
Miller also documented the hill’s landslide conditions in a 1997 report written
for the state Department of Ecology and
the Tulalip Tribes.
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Business improving
Wallace, who employs two full-time and
three part-time workers, said she has operated at a break-even point but has just
“turned the corner” after her recent opening.
She serves about 150 meals a day to a
variety of customers: “young people, old
people, people riding their bikes and people
coming from out of town,” she said.
The stand’s location is away from downtown and doesn’t get as much tourist
action as Dogs-a-Foot, a seasonal stand at
the corner of Water and Madison streets,
but many out-of-town customers stop in on
their way to Fort Worden State Park or the
Jefferson County Fairgrounds, Wallace
said.
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Comedy romp to open on Ludlow stage
British-style play
only for weekend
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PORT LUDLOW — This
Thursday is opening night for
“The Gazebo,” a suspense-laced
comedy up for a four-day run at
the Beach Club courtesy of the
Ludlow Village Players.
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confusion reigns as Elliott
crosses paths with a series of
unsavory characters.
“The Gazebo” is “good, clean,

old-fashioned 1950s fun with a
very suspenseful twist,” promised Village Players spokeswoman Mary Ronen.
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Boyce, Shirley Davies-Owens,
Steve Frenzl, Doug Hubbard,
Jennifer Kavanagh, Carl
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Cassidy sent
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A JUDGE HAS sentenced 1970s teen heartthrob David Cassidy to
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MONDAY’S QUESTION: Should Olympic
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to save the Enchanted Valley Chalet?
Yes, it’s an asset

By The Associated Press

PATRICK J.
MCGOVERN, 76, who
started a modest database
50 years ago to track the
growing use of computers
and went on to build a
global publishing empire
that has produced scores
of successful magazines
and websites, including
Computerworld and Macworld, died Wednesday in
Palo Alto, Calif.
His death was confirmed by the company he
founded in 1964, now
called International Data
Group, or IDG. No cause
was given.
Under Mr. McGovern’s
watch, IDG developed the
popular “For Dummies”
series of instructional reference books, built an
international market analysis arm and began organizing huge technology
events, including the
annual Macworld trade
shows attended by thousands.
Steven P. Jobs, the
founder of Apple, was often
a star of the stage.
Mr. McGovern, inclined
to business suits rather
than mock turtlenecks, was
rarely onstage himself, but
he was routinely on lists of
American billionaires.
He was often referred to
as “Uncle Pat” by the thousands of employees at his
company, and he was
known for a determinedly
human gesture in the
cyberworld: traveling the
planet to hand-deliver
Christmas bonus checks of
$500 to everyone who
worked for him.
Mr. McGovern was a
prescient entrepreneur. He
anticipated an expanding
appetite for information
about the computer industry when its biggest names

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No, not worth cost
included Univac and RCA.
He was quick to expand
beyond the United States,
particularly in Asia, by creating locally managed subsidiaries.
He broke ground as a
philanthropist, too.
In 2000, he and his wife,
Lore Harp McGovern, gave
$350 million to his alma
mater, the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, for
the study of brain science.
It remains one of the largest gifts to an American
university.

_________
WU TIANMING, 74, a
movie director and former
studio head known as the
godfather of contemporary
Chinese cinema for the
generation of filmmakers
— including Zhang Yimou
and Chen Kaige — he
shepherded to international acclaim, died March
4 in Beijing.
The cause was a heart
attack, the Chinese news
agency Xinhua said in
reporting on Mr. Wu’s
memorial service.
As a director, Mr. Wu
was known for “The Old
Well” (1986), the story of a
poor village’s quest for
drinking water in which
Zhang appears as an actor,
and “The King of Masks”
(1996), about an aging

street performer longing to
pass on his craft.
He was even better
known for his work in the
1980s as chief of the Xian
Film Studio, a state-run
facility in the capital of the
Shaanxi Province.
In his half-dozen years
in the post, Mr. Wu transformed the studio from a
provincial operation into a
cinematic hothouse, cultivating the cohort of bold
young directors, often
described as the “fifth generation” of Chinese filmmakers, that also included
Tian Zhuangzhuang and
Gu Changwei.
Among the movies produced under Mr. Wu’s stewardship were some of the
most critically acclaimed
examples of late-20th-century world cinema:
Zhang’s first film, “Red
Sorghum” (1987), which
depicted the hardships of
peasant life in the 1930s;
“The Horse Thief” (1986), a
stark, haunting film about
Tibetan nomads directed
by Tian; and Chen’s “King
of Children,” about a
schoolteacher during the
Cultural Revolution.

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Peninsula Lookback
From the pages of the PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

1939 (75 years ago)
Petitions requesting the
directors of School District
No. 7 [Port Angeles] to
reconsider their action to
seek the resignation of R.S.
Bray, faculty member and
athletic coach for 14 years,
are being circulated among
Roosevelt High School students.
Student body president
Eddie Brophy, a member of
the football and track
teams, predicted that up to
600 names will be on the
petitions to be presented to
the Board of Directors later
today.
The board earlier this
week voted 4-1 to seek
Bray’s resignation, overruling a recommendation by
Superintendent F.W.
Breakey that Bray be reassigned as a study hall and
physical education teacher.

tion will be opened for use.
Students have received
maps to help them determine their routes to new
classrooms for their “day of
days.”

1989 (25 years ago)

The U.S. Forest Service
has halted all timber sales
on Olympic National Forest
and 12 other Northwest
national forests after a federal court enjoined for 60
days specific sales that
environmentalists said
would destroy northern
Seen Around
spotted owl habitat.
The unprecedented
Peninsula snapshots
move will hold up 140 sales
A MAN WALKING
totaling about 1 billion
across U.S. Highway 101 at
board feet of old-growth
R Corner between Port
timber in Washington and
Angeles and Sequim
Oregon national forests.
guiding
a
miniature
radioLaugh Lines
Wayne Gaskins, a vice
controlled off-road truck
president for the Western
WORKMEN IN LOS
that is pulling a trailer —
Forest Industries AssociaAngeles unearthed prehis- loaded with a 12-pack of
tion, told The Associated
toric fossils that are at
beer . . .
1964 (50 years ago)
Press that he knows of at
least 2 million years old.
Students at Forks High least four lumber manufacWANTED! “Seen Around”
Scientists could tell the
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Looking Back
From the files of The Associated Press

TODAY IS WEDNESDAY,
March 26, the 85th day of 2014.
There are 280 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
■ On March 26, 2013, Italy’s
top criminal court overturned the
acquittal of Seattle native Amanda
Knox in the grisly murder of British roommate Meredith Kercher
and ordered Knox to stand trial
again. In January 2014, an
appeals court upheld the murder
conviction of Knox, who said she
would never willingly return to
Italy to face her 28½-year prison
sentence.
On this date:
■ In 1812, an earthquake devastated Caracas, Venezuela, caus-

ing an estimated 26,000 deaths,
according to the U.S. Geological
Survey.
■ In 1917, the Seattle Metropolitans became the first U.S. team
to win the Stanley Cup as they
defeated the Montreal Canadiens.
■ In 1937, a 6-foot-tall statue
of the cartoon character Popeye
was unveiled during the second
annual Spinach Festival in Crystal
City, Texas.
■ In 1958, the U.S. Army
launched America’s third successful satellite, Explorer 3.
■ In 1962, the U.S. Supreme
Court, in Baker v. Carr, gave federal courts the power to order
reapportionment of states’ legislative districts.

■ In 1979, a peace treaty was
signed by Israeli Prime Minister
Menachem Begin and Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat, and witnessed by President Jimmy Carter
at the White House.
■ In 1982, groundbreaking
ceremonies took place in Washington D.C., for the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial.
■ In 1989, the science-fiction
TV series “Quantum Leap,” starring Scott Bakula as an errant
time-traveler, premiered on NBC.
■ In 1997, the bodies of 39
members of the Heaven’s Gate
techno-religious cult who’d committed suicide were found inside a
rented mansion in Rancho Santa
Fe, Calif.

■ Ten years ago: Phoenix
Bishop Thomas O’Brien was sentenced to four years’ probation and
1,000 hours of community service
for a deadly hit-and-run that
claimed the life of pedestrian Jim
Reed.
■ Five years ago: President
Barack Obama held an unprecedented Internet town hall from the
White House as he made a direct
sales pitch for his $3.6 trillion budget.
■ One year ago: A new study
from the Society of Actuaries said
insurance companies would have
to pay out an average of 32 percent more for medical claims
under President Barack Obama’s
health care overhaul.

PENINSULA DAILY NEWS for Wednesday, March 26, 2014
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Briefly: Nation
Obama seeks
ending NSA’s
phone sweep
WASHINGTON — The
White House wants the
National Security Agency to get
out of the business of sweeping
up and storing vast amounts of
data on Americans’ phone calls.
And a proposal to have the
government seek information
from phone companies’ existing
records satisfies public concerns
about privacy, President Barack
Obama said Tuesday.
The administration is
expected this week to propose
that Congress overhaul the electronic surveillance program to
end the government’s practice of
collecting the phone records of
millions of Americans and holding them for five years so the
data can be searched for
national security purposes.
Obama commented Tuesday
in the Netherlands at the close
of a summit on nuclear security.
The White House proposal is
similar to legislation members
of the House Intelligence Committee introduced Tuesday.
Details of the government’s
secret phone records collection
program were disclosed last year
by former NSA contract systems
analyst Edward Snowden.

dozing off toward the end of her
shift, according the union representing transit workers.
But Tuesday’s announcement
that a piece of emergency safety
equipment might have failed
was the first indication the accident could have been caused by
human error and mechanical
failure.
National Transportation
Safety Board investigator Ted
Turpin said a preliminary
review showed the train was
traveling at the correct speed of
25 mph as it entered the station.
Investigators said they have
not yet determined whether the
operator ever applied the in-cab
brake.

Competency ruled

SIDNEY, Mont. — A state
psychiatrist said Tuesday that a
Colorado man is competent to
stand trial in the murder of an
eastern Montana teacher
despite his low scores on mental-fitness tests.
The testimony in a Sidney, Mont.,
courtroom
from psychiatrist Virginia
Hill contrasted
sharply with a
defense portrayal of
Michael Keith Spell
Spell, 24, as
not fit for trial because he is
Train crash probed
mentally disabled and unable to
CHICAGO — An emergency
understand the case against him.
track-side breaking system actiHill suggested that Spell’s
vated but failed to stop a Chilow test scores belie his mental
cago commuter train from jump- competency.
ing the tracks and barreling to
She described him mental
the top of an escalator at O’Hare disability as mild. Hill said he
International Airport, a federal
was observed playing video
investigator said Tuesday.
games, doing his own laundry
The events that led to Monand manipulating other patients
day’s accident, which occurred
during his two-month stay at
around 3 a.m. and injured more Montana State Hospital in
than 30 passengers, might have Warm Springs.
The Associated Press
begun with the train operator

Briefly: World
China demands
satellite data on
Malaysia jetliner
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia
— China demanded Tuesday
that Malaysia turn over the satellite data used to conclude that
a Malaysia Airlines jetliner had
crashed in the southern Indian
Ocean, killing all 239 on board.
Officials sharply narrowed
the search area as a result of
that assessment, but the zone
remains as large as Texas and
Oklahoma combined.
Australia said improved
weather would allow the hunt
for the plane to resume today
after gale-force winds and heavy
rain forced a daylong delay.
Late Monday, Malaysian
Prime Minister Najib Razak
announced that a new analysis
of satellite data confirmed that
the plane had crashed in a
remote part of the southern
Indian Ocean.
That announcement
unleashed a storm of sorrow
and anger among the families of
the plane’s passengers and crew
— two-thirds of them Chinese.

mounting before the Afghan
presidential vote, a Taliban
assault team turned election
offices in eastern Kabul into a
scene of carnage Tuesday.
After a firefight that
stretched for more than three
hours and trapped dozens of
people in the compound, five victims lay dead and the Afghan
capital had again been proven
vulnerable.

Testimony likely

PRETORIA, South Africa —
Oscar Pistorius will probably
testify at his trial later this
week, a defense attorney said
Tuesday after prosecutors
rested their case against the
double-amputee runner who is
accused of murder in his girlfriend’s death.
In a rare
public comment, Pistorius said he
was going
through “a
tough time” as
the case
advanced.
Defense
Pistorius
lawyer Brian
Webber said Pistorius is “likely”
Pre-election attack
to take the stand to open the
KABUL, Afghanistan — With defense case.
The Associated Press
security concerns already

Justices appear to be split
over health care contraceptives
THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON — In an argument that
touched on medical science and moral philosophy, the Supreme Court on Tuesday wrestled
with whether corporations may refuse to provide insurance coverage for contraception to
their workers based on the religious beliefs of
the corporations’ owners.
The court seemed ready to accept that at
least some for-profit corporations may advance
claims based on religious freedom.
But the justices appeared divided along ideological lines over whether the objections before
it — based on a requirement in President
Barack Obama’s health care law — should succeed.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who probably
holds the decisive vote, asked questions helpful
to both sides.

He appeared skeptical
that the two family-controlled companies that
objected to the contraception
coverage requirement were
burdened by the law, as they
could cease providing health
insurance at all.
He also expressed solicitude for “the rights of the
Kennedy
employees.”
But Kennedy also had
reservations about whether the government
could require the companies in the case to provide coverage in light of the many exemptions
and accommodations it has offered to other
groups.
The lower courts are divided over whether
corporations may object to generally applicable
laws on religious liberty grounds.

Obama worried that
Russia will go further
More sanctions
possible, no
troops, he says
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

THE HAGUE, Netherlands —
With no sign of Russia abandoning
the Crimean Peninsula, President
Barack Obama said Tuesday he’s
concerned that Moscow will move
deeper into Ukraine.
He warned Russian President
Vladimir Putin that the international community is prepared to
impose punishing sanctions
against his country’s economy.
Obama stood fast on his insistence that Crimea remains a part
of Ukraine, even as the fledgling
Ukrainian government in Kiev
ordered its troops to pull back from
the disputed territory.
He dismissed Russia as a
“regional power” that was acting
from a position of weakness.

‘Not recognizing’
“We’re not recognizing what is
happening in Crimea,” Obama said
at his first news conference since
Russia annexed Crimea after a
referendum 10 days ago.
Obama rejected “the notion that
a referendum sloppily organized
over the course of two weeks”
would “somehow be a valid process.”
Obama said that while Russia’s
military controls Crimea, its acqui-

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte listens as President
Barack Obama speaks at the closing session of the
Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague, Netherlands.
sition of the Black Sea peninsula is
“not a done deal” without international recognition.
But he also said, “It would be
dishonest to suggest there is a
simple solution to what has already
taken place in Crimea.”
“We also are concerned about
further encroachment by Russia
into Ukraine,” Obama said, as he
took questions in a joint appearance with his host, Dutch Prime
Minister Mark Rutte.
“I think that will be a bad choice
for President Putin to make,”
Obama said. “But ultimately he is
the president of Russia, and he’s
the one who’s going to be making
that decision.”
Obama was pursuing efforts to
pressure Russia out of its aggres-

sive pose as world leaders met for
an international Nuclear Security
Summit.
But to the east, the Russian
annexation of Crimea was beginning to take root and Moscow
shrugged off Obama’s drive to
leave Putin in the cold.
Obama also said he was concerned about Russia’s troop buildup along the Ukrainian border.
“We oppose what appears to be
an effort at intimidation,” Obama
said. “But Russia has a right legally
to have its troops on its own soil.”
In a strongly worded statement,
the United States, France, Canada,
Britain, Germany, Italy and Japan
denounced the referendum in
Crimea to secede from Ukraine and
Russia’s ensuing annexation.

Troops withdraw — on buses
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

FEODOSIA, Crimea — Giving
last-minute kisses to wives and
girlfriends, Ukrainian marines in
Crimea piled into buses Tuesday
to head back to the mainland.
Former comrades saluted them
from outside a base that has been
overrun by Russian forces.
It was a low-key exit from the
eastern port of Feodosia, with
fewer than a dozen friends or relatives on hand to bid the marines
farewell.

Quick Read

A troop transporter bearing
black Russian military plates
trailed the bus as it pulled away.
Their departure came as
Ukraine’s defense minister
stepped down Tuesday after
harsh criticism for authorities’
often-hesitant reaction to Russia’s
annexation of Crimea, which was
formalized following a hastily
organized referendum this month.
And while Ukraine struggled
to deal with its humbling by Russia, it also faced the menace of
seething Ukrainian nationalists

angered by the police killing of a
leading radical.
Troops were given the stark
choice of staying in Crimea and
switching to work for Russia or
leaving the peninsula to keep
their jobs with Ukraine.
So far, 131 Ukrainian marines
have left Crimea, the defense
ministry said.
They are going to be stationed
temporarily at a military barracks in the southern town of
Genichesk, but their final destination is still unclear.

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West: Federal court keeps
San Francisco anti-gun laws

Nation: Coast Guard
partially reopens channel

World: Fire razes 6,000
stalls in Guatemala market

World: Canada to retire
train cars linked to blast

A FEDERAL APPEALS court
unanimously upheld the constitutionality Tuesday of two San Francisco laws
that regulate gun storage and ammunition.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th
Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the
city had adequately justified an ordinance that requires gun owners to
keep weapons either stored in a locked
container or disabled with a trigger lock
when not carried.
Gun owners sued San Francisco in
2009 to overturn that law, arguing that
they needed to keep their weapons
ready to fire for self-protection in their
homes.

THE COAST GUARD partially
reopened one of the nation’s busiest
seaports to ship traffic Tuesday, three
days after a collision between a barge
and a ship spilled up to 170,000 gallons of tar-like oil into the waters south
of Houston.
Authorities said ships were being
allowed through the Houston Ship
Channel after their assessment teams
deemed it was clear enough for passage. More than 100 ships on both
sides of the channel were awaiting the
reopening.
The oil spill happened Saturday
when a barge carrying 900,000 gallons
collided with a ship.

FIRE DEVOURED THOUSANDS of
stalls in a market in Guatemala City
early Tuesday, state media reported.
Authorities haven’t determined what
caused the fire, which broke out
around 2:30 a.m. in La Terminal market. The fire destroyed approximately
6,000 stalls in the market, the state-run
AGN news agency reported.
Volunteer firefighters said they
struggled to battle the blaze due to a
shortage of water in the area, adding
that they had difficulty persuading vendors to leave their stalls.
“People often stay to sleep in their
posts,” Guatemala City Mayor Alvaro
Arzu said. “They have gas tanks there.”

CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY
said it will phase out the type of tank
cars involved in the Quebec train
derailment last summer that killed 47.
CN Rail Chief Executive Claude
Mongeau said Tuesday its fleet of 183
DOT-111 tank cars will be retired over
four years. CN is Canada’s largest railway.
He said car design was “one of the
most important systematic issues” arising from last summer’s railway explosion in Lac-Megantic, Quebec.
The Association of American Railroads recently recommended the retrofitting or phase-out of the old cars used
to transport flammable liquids.

OLYMPIA — A Senate
committee voted Tuesday to
give an extra $30 a day to
senators and an additional
$10 daily increase to legislative assistants while the
Legislature is in session.
The bipartisan Senate
Facilities and Operations
Committee voted 4-3 to
approve the increase, with
Republican Sen. Don Benton, the committee’s chairman, casting the deciding
vote in support.
Also voting in support
were: Sens. Karen Fraser,
D-Olympia, Brian Hatfield,
D-Raymond, and Senate
Minority Leader Sharon
Nelson, D-Maury Island.
Senate Majority Leader
Rodney Tom, D-Medina,
and Sens. Mark Schoesler,
R-Ritzville, and Linda
Evans
Parlette,
R-Wenatchee, all voted
against the measure.
The Senate vote also
increases legislative assistant per diems from $30 a
day to $40 a day.
All except Fraser participated in the meeting by

conference call.
The move follows action
taken earlier this year by
the House to increase representatives’ daily stipend
— known as a per diem —
from $90 a day to $120 a
day.
That vote was retroactive, so House lawmakers
received an increase of
$1,800 during this year’s
60-day session, which ended
March 13.

Effective April 1
The Senate vote is effective April 1, but the increase
will only be added while
lawmakers are in session.
Next year’s legislative session is scheduled for 105
days, which means that
lawmakers will see a $3,150
increase. Tuesday’s vote
was the first Senate perdiem increase since 2005,
when it increased from $82
to $90 a day.
Fraser, who made the
motion for the per-diem
increase, noted that she
doesn’t take a per diem during session, and she said
that other lawmakers could
similarly choose to not take
the increase if they wanted.

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Searchers in boats and on foot look Tuesday through debris following a deadly mudslide near
Oso. At least 14 people were killed in the 1-square-mile slide that hit the rural area about 55
miles northeast of Seattle on Saturday.

Slide: Report a feasibility study
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Patricia Graesser, a
spokeswoman for the Army
Corps in Seattle, said it
appears that the 1999
report was intended not as
a risk assessment but as a
feasibility study for ecosystem restoration.
Asked whether the
agency should have done
anything with the information, she said:
“We don’t have jurisdiction to do anything. We
and “has been in the restau- don’t do zoning. That’s a
rant business forever,” local responsibility.”
working at Fins Coastal
Cuisine and the Public Unaware of study
House, among other busiSnohomish County offinesses.
She was encouraged to cials and authorities in the
strike out on her own by her devastated village of Oso
husband, Matt, who is a said they were not aware of
the study but that residents
roofing contractor.
“This is a different kind and town officials knew the
of food cart. It’s off the risks of living in the area.
In fact, the area has long
beaten path,” Matt Wallace
been known as the “Hazel
said.
“It’s in the middle of a Landslide” because of landneighborhood, and it cre- slides over the past halfcentury. The last severe one
ates its own local scene.
“It’s real food cooked in a before Saturday’s disaster
wholesome way that is per- was in 2006.
fect for taking the family
“A slide of this magniout. Usually, it costs a lot tude is very difficult to premore for this kind of food.
dict,” county Public Works
“We are getting a lot of Director Steve Thomsen
repeat customers. The word told The Seattle Times,
has been spreading.”
which first reported on
The San Juan Taqueria Miller’s analysis.
is open from 11 a.m. to 7
“There was no indicap.m. Monday through Fri- tion, no indication at all.”
day and from 11 a.m. to 6
No landslide warnings
p.m. Saturday.
for the area were issued
Summer hours could be before the disaster, which
extended, Wallace said.
came after weeks of heavy
For more information, rain.
phone 360-385-1728.
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growth chances
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“We’ve had people who
remember us from one year
to the next and tell us they
really like the food,” Wallace
said.
While
business
is
improving, the growth
opportunities are limited
because the stand operates
under a temporary use permit, which grants a sixmonth period with a possible two-month extension.

Standing room only
Under the terms of the
permit, the stand can’t offer
seating unless it installs
bathrooms, something that
Wallace isn’t willing to do.
“I’m renting here, so I’m
not going to make those
kinds of improvements,” she
said.
The stand isn’t easily
moved, so it’s impractical to
move to Point Hudson for
the Wooden Boat Festival,
she said.
“Some people think that
operating out of a trailer is
easy, but there are a lot of
things you need to consider,”
she said.
Wallace, 48, has lived in
Port Townsend for 23 years

Rhody: Weather
CONTINUED FROM A1 permanent damage, Bozak
said.
“If it’s a normal spring,
“The carnival has always
we should have no prob- offered to pay for any damlem,” said contractor Roger age, and the county has
Hall, who installed the never asked for any reimfield’s sprinkler system in bursement,” Bozak said.
2010.
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“But if it’s really wet,
like in 2011, we might want
Jefferson County Editor Charlie
to call it off.”
Bermant can be reached at 360Even in wet weather the 385-2335 or cbermant@peninsula
carnival won’t cause any dailynews.com.

Depression

‘Better information’
“One of the things this
tragedy should teach us is
the need to get better information about geologic hazards out to the general public,” said David Montgomery, a geomorphologist with
the University of Washington in Seattle.
“Where are the potentially unstable slopes? How
big a risk do they pose? And
what should be done to let
homeowners know about
that?”
Meanwhile, searchers

A search and rescue worker clears debris from a house Tuesday on the
western edge of the massive mudslide that struck near Oso on Saturday.
continued to pick through
the debris, warning that
they were likely to find
more bodies.
Authorities were working off a list of 176 people
unaccounted for, though
some names were believed
to be duplicates.
The threat of flash floods
and another landslide
loomed over the rescuers.
“Rescue or recovery: We
are doing both,” said Travis
Hots, chief of the rural fire
district in which the slide
occurred.

Hots said.
State and federal experts
trained in finding buried
victims still alive were
arriving at the scene — as
well as a state mortuary
assistance team, called in to
help the Snohomish County
medical examiner as more
bodies are found.
The bodies are being
taken from the scene as
they’re found, Hots said.
There is the possibility that
despite best efforts, some
may never be recovered, he
added.
“We are bringing all the
‘Still in rescue mode’
resources we have to the
horrific situation,” Snohom“We are still in rescue ish County Sheriff Ty Tremode in my mind, and we nary said.
are throwing everything we
have at this and we are National Guard
working very hard.”
A 50-member search
The effort likely will
take weeks, but “we are team from the National
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Officials are continuing
to parse through the dozens
of reports of missing people,
and they expect to have
reduced that list substantially by Tuesday night,
said John Pennington, who
heads Snohomish County’s
Department of Emergency
Management.
New technology is being
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Sequim council
says ‘it’s up to
the voters’ to OK
BY JOE SMILLIE
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

SEQUIM –– The City
Council has refused to offer
an official endorsement of
the Sequim School District’s
$154 million construction
bond request, as was
requested by backers of the
April 22 ballot measure.
The council did, however,
approve an unofficial statement in “general support” of
the district’s request, as
most council members
expressed personal support
for the measure.
“It’s up to the voters of
the school district to make
this decision, not this council,” Councilman Erik Erichsen said.
Erichsen, along with
council members Ted Miller,
Dennis Smith and Genaveve
Starr, voted not to issue the
official resolution in support
of the measure at Monday
night’s council session.
Mayor Candace Pratt,
Councilman Ken Hays and
Councilwoman
Laura
Dubois voted to issue the
endorsement.
“We’re partners with the
school district, and I think
we owe them this,” Pratt
said.

Unofficial statement
The council later voted
6-1, with Erichsen again in
dissent, to issue a statement
saying the “city council
offers general support to the
Sequim School District in
seeking voter approval to
fund the acknowledged need
for districtwide improvements to its education facilities.”
The district is asking for
the bond to fund construction of a new elementary
school, an extensive remodel
and renovation of the high
school and two existing elementary schools, and build a
new athletic complex.
If approved, the bonds
would add approximately
$1.70 per $1,000 of assessed
value to the property tax
bills of property owners in
the district, which has a
total assessed property
value of $3.7 billion.
The bond would add $425
to the annual property tax
bill of the owner of a
$250,000 home.
Ballots are set to be
mailed to district voters
April 2.

Citizens speak up

Votes in favor
Hays, Mayor Candace Pratt and Councilwomen
Laura Dubois and Genaveve Starr voted in favor of
the zoning restrictions, which are only valid if the city
lifts the temporary ban.
Councilmen Erik Erichsen, Ted Miller and Dennis
Smith voted against the new zoning laws.
Sequim voters gave 52 percent approval to Initiative 502, which passed in Clallam County by 55 percent and in Jefferson County by 65 percent on its way
to statewide approval in the November 2012 election.
In the one-month window the state gave entrepreneurs to apply for pot licenses, the Liquor Control
Board received five retail, one processor and no producer applications for inside Sequim’s city limit.
The state allocated one retail pot store for Sequim.
No licenses have been approved yet by the liquor
board for the North Olympic Peninsula.
Miller worried the liquor board might up that number if there is greater demand for recreational pot.
“It’s one today. It could be any number tomorrow,”
he said.

Federal allegiance
Erichsen said he voted against the zoning laws
because of the federal prohibition on marijuana, noting he pledged allegiance to the U.S. flag at the start
of Monday’s meeting, which pre-empts state law.
“You’re sworn to uphold the laws of Washington,
one of which is 502,” Judith Parker of Sequim said,
one of several citizen speakers who cited the oath of
office administered to council members.
Federal officials have said they will let Washington
and Colorado legalize marijuana despite the federal
prohibition as long as they keep it tightly regulated.
“I’m sorry we have federal officials who do not
wish to support our laws,” Erichsen said.
The council will review the moratorium April 28,
city attorney Craig Ritchie said.
David Mattingley hailed the temporary ban, saying it gives the city time to review the implications of
legal pot before it “falls down this rabbit hole.”
However, Anthony Owen owner of the Karma
Wellness Cooperative in Port Angeles, said the ban
has kept him from opening a shop in Sequim, where
he estimated 400 of his 1,000 patients live.
“We would like to operate within the city limits,
but that is not possible with the moratorium in
place,” Owen said.
Dubois said she wanted to leave the ban in place
to determine the additional costs legal pot may cause
for the city.
we have buildings that are
older than the City Hall
that’s set to be demolished.”
Michael McAleer, a local
real estate agent, said the
school’s tax levy rate if the
construction
bond
is
approved would be $3.85 per
$1,000 assessed value, below
the state average levy of
$4.44.
Others, though, urged
the council not to weigh in
on the school district’s funding request.
“The council as a body
should represent interests of
all and should not adopt a
resolution in support of, nor
against, the proposition but
let the electoral process run
its course,” Sequim resident
Jeff Killian said.
Starr said she had heard
similar sentiment from citizens expressing a concern
that an endorsement from
the council “puts pressure
on them.”
Miller agreed.
“I don’t feel the City
Council as a body has a right
to substitute the will of the
voters,” Miller said. “This is
a school district issue.”

“We are not taking anyone’s vote away from them,”
Pratt responded. “We’ve
done this before.”
In February 2013, the
council
unanimously
approved a resolution in
favor of the school district’s
four-year, $5.8 million-ayear operations levy and
one-year, $1.6 million bus
replacement levy.
Erichsen said this time
around, he could not agree
to a council position on the
matter.
“We are giving pressure
and influence to the voters
that we, as a council, as a
governing body, accept it,
think it’s a good idea,” Erichsen said.

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Sequim-Dungeness Valley Editor Joe Smillie can be reached at
360-681-2390, ext. 5052, or at
jsmillie@peninsuladailynews.com.

Clallam County Master Gardeners Muriel Nesbitt, left, and Mary Flo
Bruce — shown in front of heath, a hearty plant that attracts pollinators
— will present “Wild Pollinators in Our Gardens” at noon Thursday at the
Clallam County Courthouse in Port Angeles.

Wild pollinators topic of
‘Green Thumbs’ lecture
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

PORT ANGELES —
Veteran Master Gardeners
Muriel Nesbitt and Mary
Flo Bruce will discuss the
habits and habitat of wild
pollinators at noon Thursday.
The one-hour presentation in the commissioners’
meeting room (No. 160) at
the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St., is
part of the “Green Thumbs
Garden Tips” brown-bag
series sponsored by the
Washington State University Clallam County Master
Gardeners.
Nesbitt will discuss the
importance of wild bees,
hornets, wasps, flies, ants
and butterflies to the food
supply, including why they
are endangered and how

‘Elkie’ films
sought for
student fest
SEQUIM — Sequim
Middle School students are
working on films for the
ninth annual Sequim Education Foundation Student
Film Festival, which will be
held in the high school auditorium at 7 p.m. Friday,
April 18.
Students will compete for
more than $7,000 worth of
scholarships and awards.
The deadline for all student film submissions is
April 7.
In addition to the regular
competition, students this
year will be able to submit
films on behalf of their
favorite school clubs.
The film that best depicts
how their club embodies
school spirit will win a $500
cash award for the club.
The public is welcome to
attend the screenings and
help decide the fate of the
“Elkie” award.
For more information,
visit www.sequimed.org or
phone Elna Kawal at 360683-3027.

Joke-telling event
PORT ANGELES — An
April Fools’ Joke-Telling
Evening is back at the Port
Angeles Library, 2210 S.
Peabody St.
The public is asked to
come tell jokes or help fill
out the audience in the Ray-

mond Carver Room at
7 p.m. Tuesday.
There is no charge, and
registration is not required.
Jokes are uncensored.
The evening is co-hosted
by Port Book & News and
the Story People of Clallam
County.
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biology at the University of
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She directed the Clallam
County Master Gardener
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Bruce, who has a doctorate in public health, is a
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She said approximately
one-third of the world’s
crops are pollinated by
insect pollinators.
Bruce will explain how
to identify orchard mason
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A number of citizens
asked the council to endorse
the bond prior to the vote
Monday night.
“I want to express our
general support of a good
school system,” said Richard
Newman, chief human
resources officer for Olympic
Medical Center.
Schools, he said, are one
of the primary concerns of
potential health care workers when they apply for jobs
at the Port Angeles-based
hospital
School Board President
John Bridge noted that the
district’s list of facility needs
is similar to one drawn up
by a citizen committee in
2008.
“Unfortunately, nothing
got done,” Bridge said. “Now,

SEQUIM –– State-licensed marijuana shops will
be limited to the dense commercial districts at the
east and west ends of Washington Street, though they
won’t be able to set up just yet as a temporary ban on
establishing pot businesses remains in place.
The City Council put a six-month moratorium on
pot shops Feb. 24 and left it there during Monday
night’s council meeting despite approving on a split
4-3 vote new regulations that would restrict where
pot shops could locate in the city.
The zoning rules do not allow pot to be grown or
processed in Sequim.
Councilman Ken Hays called for the council to
approve the zoning restrictions, saying they would
give the city control over the “inevitable” establishment of pot businesses.
“If we do nothing, then we lose control,” Hays said.

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Charges made in
RV park robbery
edly belonged to Cabeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
mother, was found later
that day near the intersection of 11th and A streets,
police said.
Cabe was charged Tuesday with one count each of
first-degree robbery, unlawful imprisonment, thirddegree theft and fourthdegree assault.

Counts still pending for
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ing on the surplus pistols,
nor was testimony offered in
a second public hearing on
debatable budget emergencies.

PORT ANGELES â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Four men arrested following a pair of alleged assaults
and a robbery at a west Port
Angeles RV park have been
charged in Clallam County
Superior Court.
The charges stem from
the case of Joshua Allen
Cabe, 26, of Forks; Ordez
Eugene Kompkoff, 19, of
Port Angeles; and Zachary
Michael Taylor, 20, of Port
Angeles, all of whom at
12:07 a.m. March 18 allegedly forced their way into
the trailer of Daniel Joseph
Jenkins, 21, attacked him
and made off with numerous items, including his
computer, cellphone, cash
and the shoes off his feet.

Budget changes

Treated, released

The county revises its
budget with supplemental
appropriations,
budget
reductions and debatable
emergencies every quarter.
Commissioners opened
their weekly business meeting with a proclamation recognizing Sunday as Welcome
Home Vietnam Veterans
Day.
The March 30 observance,
which was spearheaded by
Port Angeles Army Vietnam
veteran Norman Goodin in
2009 and proclaimed statewide by former Gov. Chris
Gregoire in 2010, marks the
anniversary of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from
Vietnam in 1973.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;This proclamation is the
welcome home we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get
at the end of the war when
we came back after our
tours,â&#x20AC;? Goodin said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was pretty bad, I can
tell you that.â&#x20AC;?
Welcome Home Vietnam
Veterans Day became a federal observance in 2011.
Goodin, who served in
Vietnam in 1967 and 1968,
received a standing ovation
after accepting the county
proclamation.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;What you started will
continue,â&#x20AC;? board Chairman
Mike Chapman told Goodin.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I assume that future
boards will gladly pass this
proclamation every year in
honor of all the Vietnam veterans.â&#x20AC;?
The annual Welcome
Home Vietnam Veterans
Day ceremony is set for
1 p.m. Sunday at the Clallam
County Veterans Center, 216
S. Francis St.
There will be a coffee
social for all veterans from
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Jenkins was treated for
his injuries and released
from Olympic Medical Center.
At about 10 p.m. that
day, Jenkins would return
to the RV park and allegedly attack Taylor with a
metal pipe, sending Taylor
to the hospital with a laceration on the back of his
head, according to Port
Angeles police accounts.
Taylor, who remained in
the Clallam County jail
Tuesday on $25,000 bond,
was charged Monday with
one count each of first-

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busy preparing for the upcoming irrigation season, which starts
the first week of April.

PORT ANGELES â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Clallam County commissioners have declared four Glock
22 .40-caliber pistols as surplus property, clearing the
way for their purchase by the
same law enforcement officials who carried them on
the job.
The 3-0 Tuesday vote
gives four retired sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
deputies the option of purchasing the sidearms at the
manufacturerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
trade-in
price.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;These are four sidearms
that deputies carried for the
duration of their career,â&#x20AC;? said
Ron Cameron, chief criminal
deputy, in a public hearing.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;All four deputies retired
in good standing after long
careers. . . . I believe all four
have expressed an interest in
these weapons.â&#x20AC;?
Commissioners
last

month approved a policy
amendment that allows a
commissioned deputy who
retires in good standing the
option of purchasing his or
her career service handgun
from the county.
Proceeds from the sales
would go to the county general fund.
Undersheriff Ron Peregrin has said the policy
ensures that the sidearm
will remain in responsible
hands.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a two-stage process,â&#x20AC;? County Administrator
Jim Jones said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the formal declaration of surplus. This is not
the awarding to the deputies.
Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been done with a
change in policy making that
an option later.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;But first, we have to do
the declaration of surplus
property.â&#x20AC;?
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degree robbery, theft of a
motor vehicle, unlawful
imprisonment,
fourthdegree assault and thirddegree theft.
He is set to be arraigned
Friday.
Kompkoff, who was still
in jail Tuesday on $30,000
bond, was charged with the
same crimes as Taylor.
Kompkoff pleaded not
guilty Tuesday and is set to
face a May 19 trial, with a
case status hearing set for
April 18, according to Superior Court documents.

BY JEREMY SCHWARTZ

1

Jesse Espinoza, the
county deputy prosecuting
attorney assigned to the
case, said the theft of a
motor vehicle count stems
from Taylor and Kompkoff
allegedly taking the 2002
Volkswagen Jetta that Cabe
had been driving March 18.
The pair allegedly took
the car keys from Cabeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
pants pockets while he slept
in a room at the Aircrest
Motel, where the three had
been at about 9:49 a.m.
March 18, according to
police.

Arrested at discharge

Police arrested Taylor on
March 19 after he was discharged from OMC following treatment for the head
wound suffered when Jenkins allegedly assaulted
him.
Police arrested Cabe on
Thursday and took Kompkoff into custody after he
turned himself in at the
Car missing
county courthouse at about
Cabe awoke to find the 1 a.m. Friday.
car gone, according to police,
________
and could not contact or
Reporter Jeremy Schwartz can
find Taylor or Kompkoff at be reached at 360-452-2345, ext.
all that day.
5074, or at jschwartz@peninsula
The car, which report- dailynews.com.

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PORT ANGELES â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
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programs, two public workshops sponsored by the Port Sunday schedule
Angeles Fine Arts Center on
Friday and Sunday.
Then in Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second
The nonprofit arts center offering, Seattle ceramist
will bring Bellingham Carol Gouthro will give a
painter and printmaker lecture and workshop titled
Sheila Sondik in for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paint- â&#x20AC;&#x153;Exuberant Clay!,â&#x20AC;? also at
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In her program from
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308 E. Fourth St.
work over the past 30 years,
In this lecture-demon- demonstrate her building
stration, Sondik will com- and surfacing methods, and
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He remained in the Clallam County jail Tuesday on
$20,000 bond and is set to
be arraigned Friday.
Jenkins was charged
Monday with one count of
second-degree assault and
pleaded not guilty.
His case is set for a
June 9 trial, with a status
hearing set for Superior
Court on May 8, according
to court records.
Jenkins,
initially
arrested March 19, was not
listed on the county jail roster Tuesday.

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bers of the Port Angeles
Fine Arts Center, while registration details are available at www.PAFACed.org
or by phoning the center at
360-457-3532.
Art lovers also can see
Gouthroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Sondikâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
prints and sculptures in the
fine arts centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s show
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Exotic Terrane,â&#x20AC;? on display
through Sunday.
Admission is free to the
center, where the indoor
gallery at 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd. is open from
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays
through Sundays.
The Websterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Woods art
park surrounding the center is also free. The 5 acres
of forest and meadow are
open from dawn till dusk
365 days a year.

OLYMPIA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The state
has begun accepting grant
applications to build parks,
trails, boating facilities and
shooting ranges, as well as
grants to conserve wildlife
habitat and working farms,
the state Recreation and
Conservation
Office
announced.
Some grant applications
are due May 1 and others
July 1.
The office is administering grants in several categories:
â&#x2013; Boating â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Grants to
acquire, develop and renovate facilities including
launching ramps, guest
moorage and support facilities for motorized boats and
other watercraft
â&#x2013; Parks â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Grants to
buy land and develop parks,
ballfields, sports courts, out-

15 programs
The Recreation and Conservation Office administers 15 grant programs for
activities such as building

parks, trails and boating
facilities; protecting wildlife
habitat; conserving working
farms; and recovering
salmon from near extinction.
Since 1964, the office has
awarded nearly $2 billion
for more than 8,400 projects
across the state.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;These grants help make
our communities great
places to live, work and
play,â&#x20AC;? said Kaleen Cottingham, director of the Recreation and Conservation
Office.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not only do these grants
allow cash-strapped communities to get projects
completed, they put people
to work, and they open up
our great outdoors for people to enjoy.â&#x20AC;?
Funding for these grants
come from a variety of
sources including the federal government, state
funding and user fees.
For more information
about the grants available
this year, visit www.rco.
wa.gov.

Briefly . . .
Family court
commissioner
is appointed
PORT ANGELES â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Clallam County Superior
Court has announced the
appointment of Kristen
Prater Glenn as a part-time
family court commissioner.
Glenn will handle truancy, child support and
youth-at-risk calendars on
a weekly basis.
Glenn has worked as a
deputy prosecuting attorney, handling child support
and paternity cases.
As an assistant attorney
general, she handled child
support enforcement and
juvenile dependency cases
in Chelan, Clallam and Jefferson counties.
She received the Clallam County Pro Bono Lawyersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Distinguished Service
award in recognition of her
volunteer work conducting
regular child support and
parenting plan legal clinics.
Glenn also served as a
board member and past

president of Clallam
County Pro Bono Lawyers.
Glenn becomes part of
the team of judicial officers
effective April 15.

Mudslide scams
SEATTLE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; State officials and the Better Business Bureau are warning
people to be wary of scams
related to the destructive
Washington state mudslide.
State Attorney General
Bob Ferguson said those
wanting to donate money
should exercise caution to
make sure it goes to the
purpose intended.
He and the BBB offer
the following tips for donating:
â&#x2013; Be suspicious of solicitors requesting immediate
donations. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rush decisions, and consider contributing at www.give.org, a
website run by the Council
of Better Business Bureaus.
â&#x2013; Avoid cash donations.
Write a check directly to
the charity, not the fundraiser.
â&#x2013; Never give out
credit card numbers over

the telephone.
â&#x2013; Be wary of â&#x20AC;&#x153;newâ&#x20AC;?
charities.
â&#x2013; Watch out for fake
â&#x20AC;&#x153;victimâ&#x20AC;? or memorial social
media accounts.

Seattle wage study
SEATTLE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Nearly 1
in 4 workers in Seattle
could get a raise if the city
adopts a $15 minimum
wage.
Researchers at the University of Washington told
The Seattle Times that
about 102,000 workers in
Seattle make less than $15
an hour. That includes
about 38,000 who make the
state-mandated minimum
wage of $9.32 an hour.
If workers who now
make between $15 and $18
an hour also got a pay
raise, then the change
could affect nearly a third
of Seattleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s workforce.
The UW report is scheduled to be presented today
to the Seattle mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Income Inequality Advisory
Committee.
Peninsula Daily News
and The Associated Press

Horsemen mount up for fest parade
THE BRITISH ARE
coming!
As usual, I was clueless.
I had no idea the riders
and horses standing before
me were a cavalry ready to
repel the British invasion
from British Columbia
until their leader, Gordon
Frye, clued me in.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are the Jefferson
County Mounted Militia,
and we are ready to fight
the big war,â&#x20AC;? said Frye with
a stern face.
I have to say he certainly looked ready and
very smart in his red cap
and black military uniform
with its flowing cape.
His small but mighty
cavalry of seven looked
ready to follow him, too,
but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure they were
battle-ready.
They were, however,
crowd-pleasers.
The cavalry, which
included two people I know,
Buckhorn Range Back
Country Horsemen member Juelanne Dalzell and
young Jefferson County
Mounties 4-Hâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rachel
Doan, won many hearts
with their drill team
maneuvers as they paraded
down main street Port
Townsend last Saturday
morning for the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Victorian Heritage Festival.
The official start time
was 10:30 a.m., but if you
didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get there 10 minutes
earlier, you missed it.
Frye was apologetic to
those who arrived on time
only to see them finishing.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We mounted up as
planned at 10:20, expecting
to wait on our horse until
start time, but when the
police officer directing traffic saw us mounted, he
stopped the cars and told
us to go.â&#x20AC;?
In spite of the glitch, the
equestrians had a fun time,
gave a good performance
and stayed after to let

PENINSULA HORSEPLAY
onlookers
pet their
Griffiths
horses
and
answer
questions.
Hopefully, they
will be
back
again
next year
and it
can include members of the
high school equestrian
teams who were at their
third and final Washington
State High School Equestrian Team meet (the
results will be in my next
column).

Karen

Rescued horses
Agnewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kelsie Wilson
recently rescued three
young horses, ages 7 years,
8 years and 6 months, she
discovered â&#x20AC;&#x153;so thin you can
count every bone in their
body.â&#x20AC;?
Kelsie, a young woman
whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grown up with
horses, 4-H and as an avid
barrel racer, is doing a good
job nursing them back to
health.
Her big heart doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
include a large pocketbook,
though, so I applaud her
for reaching out to our
community for help in paying for vet care (the oldest
is in dire need of dental
work) and the necessary
extra feed, vitamins and
supplements to get them
healthy.
To donate and view photos, visit www.gofundme.
com/7hfdko.

In honor of my mother, Judith Edmonds who
joined God in Heaven on March 26, 2004

By Kelley Page-Beatty

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Historical military re-enactment expert Gordon Frye, left, leads his Jefferson County Mounted
Militia drill team (circa 1859) of local riders down Water Street in Port Townsend on Saturday
morning during the Victorian Days Parade for the 18th annual Victorian Heritage Festival.
Bolender Clinic from
May 2-4.
Bolender is an expert in
mountain trail, extreme
trail and competitive trail,
and a three-time National
Grand Champion (2008,
2009, 2010).
He owns Bolender
Horse Park in Washington
state and has designed and
built extreme trail courses
across the nation.
The cost is $350 to participate, $30 to audit.
To reserve a spot, phone
Carol Maden at 360-9124005 and leave a message.
Friday, May 2, is demonstration day, so there will
be no charge, and all are
invited.
Visit www.bolender
horsepark.com/about-en/
mark for more information.

sula Chapter Salt Creek
Spaghetti Ride. Contact
Linda Mosley at 360-9283715. Directions:
Take U.S. Highway 101
west of Port Angeles and
turn onto state Highway
112 at the junction.
Go 7.2 miles, turn north
(right) on Camp Hayden
Road and continue for 3.5
miles, then turn right into
the Salt Creek campgrounds entrance.
Parking is on the east.
Bring your favorite spaghetti sauce with or without meat and a favorite
side dish.
Trails go from easy to
advance with steep areas.
Shoes or boots are recommended.

Aging with grace

insula Daily News columnist, will explore the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Allof-a-Suddensâ&#x20AC;? that many
unexpectedly face.
â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;What Is the
Maturing Mind and
Developmental IQ?â&#x20AC;?:
Dr. Katherine Ottaway,
Quimper Family Medicine,
will explain â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Positive
Powers of the Aging Brainâ&#x20AC;?
as described in The Mature
Mind by Gene Cohen.
â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;How Do I Move
From Age-ing to Sageing?â&#x20AC;?: Chaplain Stephanie
Reith, Hospice of Jefferson
Healthcare and Spiritual
Eldering Group facilitator,
will explore the gifts and
possibilities involved with
spiritual eldering, a â&#x20AC;&#x153;process of recognizing and
claiming the wisdom of
lived experience, sharing
that wisdom through mentoring and legacy work,
and making inner peace
with end-of-life.â&#x20AC;?
This event is free and
open to the public. Pre-registration at www.quuf.org
is not required but ensures
a spot.
For more information,
phone 360-379-0609 or
visit the website.

Dog park group

Donations
sought for
Lions sale

PORT TOWNSEND â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
A public forum on graceful
aging will take place at
Quimper Unitarian
Universalist Fellowship,
PORT ANGELES â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The 2333 San Juan Ave.,
from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Port Angeles Lions Club is
accepting donations for the Thursday.
A panel of experts faciliannual Rummage Sale.
tated
by Port Townsend &
The sale will be at the
Jefferson County Leader
Clallam County Fairgrounds Home Arts Build- Publisher Scott Wilson will
ing, 1608 W. 16th St., from host sessions about the
emotional and spiritual
8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday,
challenges of aging, how
April 5.
they impact people in
To arrange for pickup
through this Friday, phone unexpected ways and how
people might prepare
360-461-3633.
themselves to face them
Items also can be
with grace.
dropped off at the Home
â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;What Does GraceArts Building between
ful Aging Look Like?â&#x20AC;?:
5 p.m. and 7 p.m. April 2-4. The Rev. Bruce Bode, felProceeds from the sale
lowship minister, will open
help support the communi- the discussion with his own
tyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needs for eye exams
definition of grace as it
and eyeglasses, wheelchair applies to the transition
ramps, scholarships and
between vibrant living and
the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food bank.
mortality.
â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;How Smooth Is
Howâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the fishing? the Road Ahead Likely
to Be?â&#x20AC;?: Mark Harvey,
Lee Horton reports.
Senior Information &
Fridays in
Assistance, regional director of the Olympic Area
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Agency on Aging and Pen-

SEQUIM â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Andrew
May, horticulturist and
Peninsula Daily News columnist, will speak at the
Newcomersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tuesday luncheon.
The event will be held
at the Cedars of Dungeness, 1965 Woodcock Road,
at 11:30 a.m.
The cost is $15.
May will share knowledge of how to get started
with spring gardening.
To RSVP by Friday,
phone 360-504-2522.
Peninsula Daily News

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PORT ANGELES â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
The Port Angeles Dog
Park Committee will meet
at the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E.
Fourth St., at 6 p.m.
Thursday.
The committee will discuss community involvement, work the trail and
check the lockbox at the
park.
Treats for humans and
canines will be provided.
For more information,
visit www.padogpark.org.

inc.

FEELING THE BITE OF
HIGH DENTURE COSTS?

David K. Do, D.D.S.

________
Karen Griffithsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; column, Peninsula Horseplay, appears every
other Wednesday.
If you have a horse event, clinic
or seminar you would like listed,
please email Griffiths at kbg@
olympus.net at least two weeks in
advance. You can also write
Griffiths at PDN, P.O. Box 1330,
Port Angeles, WA 98362.

Delightful fishing on ink blot river
YOU PROBABLY
THOUGHT the state of Washington was run by a power-mad
cabal of self-serving, pencil-pushing, pocket-lining functionaries
whose only purpose is to make
our lives miserable.
You didn’t
know that the
Pat
government
also has a keen Neal
sense of humor,
irony and
revenge.
Why else
would it insist
that we get our
new fishing
license and
punch cards on
April Fools’
Day?
The money from punch-card
sales goes to support many
worthwhile government programs, like the advanced stateof-the-art computer systems that
are required to administer
punch-card sales.
Punch cards also provide vital
funding for the latest scientific

research that might someday
allow the state to design a punch
card the average angler can figure out.
The punch cards are a vital
part of the Fish Cop Employment
Security Act, which allows them
the opportunity to write tickets
anytime and anywhere.
The law says you are to immediately record your catch in ink,
with the catch and location code.
For the steelhead angler, this
can be a real challenge.
Imagine standing in a freezing river in leaking boots in a
blizzard.
In the unlikely event you were
lucky enough to catch a winter
steelhead, you must now fill out
your punch card.
First you must find a pen.
This could involve an extensive search of your pockets,
which is difficult when your
hands are so cold they have lost
all feeling.
By the time you have found a
pen, your exposed punch card
has gotten wet.
Getting the ink to stick to wet

paper can be as difficult as hooking and reeling in a trophy steelhead.
You could write the name of
the river to record your catch but
that would be too easy.
Instead, there is a secret code
for each river.
The river codes might be
included in a secret document
that may or may not have been
included with your fishing license,
or perhaps you can find the codes
buried in the depths of the 150page fishing rules pamphlet.

Peninsula Voices
tion and salary had it been
open to the public.
Just a thought.
George Knepper,
Port Angeles

this massive spending spree
will actually make any real
A new superintendent is
difference in the end educabeing hired for the Port
tion result.
Angeles School District.
This is a massive tax
According to the PDN,
increase
to put on workers
36 people applied for the job.
No on Sequim bond and retirees who are strugOn the Port Angeles
School District’s detailed
The Sequim schools want gling to get by on limited
incomes, but it will also be a
table of employee salaries,
a huge $154 million to
hardship on today’s stuthe current superintendent’s finance their grandiose
dents as they make their
salary is listed at $138,659, plans.
way into the housing marplus some perks.
The $1.70 per $1,000 of
ket in the future and attempt
That dollar number ran
assessed value rate transto qualify for a purchase.
a bell in my little brain.
lates to an extra $340
The school system has a
Anyone that pays atten- annual tax on a $200,000
tion to local events may
home, and a whopping $510 very unfair advantage with
its taxpayer-funded Your
recall a new sidestep posion a $300,000 home, all for
Sequim Schools publication
tion, director of environmen- the next 20 years.
tal affairs, that was created
Yes, I would love to drive that is mailed district-wide.
In the just-received issue,
by the Port of Port Angeles
around in a Ferrari and live
three of the four pages are
commissioners.
in a Taj Mahal house, but
One of the three port
being grounded in financial devoted to pro-bond propacommissioners said this
reality, I don’t expect that in ganda with not one dissenting word, nor one word on
unusual move was to avert
my retirement.
a possible lawsuit by the
It’s very convenient when the cost. Can you say considestepped employee.
flict of interest?
you want cash for your pet
This new port position
I’m through being a taxprojects, and all you have to
has a similar salary figure. do is lay a guilt trip on the
paying sucker. This is an
I was just wondering
taxpayer to vote in a pile of easy no vote until a realistic
proposal is presented.
how many qualified appli- other people’s money.
Greg Carroll,
cants would have been
It’s always “for the kids,”
Sequim
scrambling for that posibut I seriously question if

High salaries

By now, your punch card is
soaked. Your pen is frozen.
You try to thaw the pen, but
this is difficult because your fingers are frozen.
You try to write the name of
the river in the space provided,
and end up with something that
looks like an ink blot.
Filling out a salmon punch
card is no picnic, either.
Imagine bouncing in a heavy
swell out in the salt-chuck while
trying to fight down a force-10
case of sea-sickness.
You catch a salmon anyway.
The salmon punch card
requires you to determine what
species you caught along with
whether the fish has a clipped fin
or not.
Determining the species of a
salmon can be as difficult as
catching one.
With blurred vision and a
shaking hand, you scribble something on your punch card that
looks like an ink blot.
Filling out a crab punch card
should be easy, but it is not.
Imagine wading out to the top

OUR READERS’ LETTERS, FAXES
Climate change
The Flat Earth Society
is still around.
A March 17 letter
[“Warming ‘Doubts,’” Peninsula Voices] argued that the
scientific community has
not “already settled the climate change question.”
The basis is an online
petition by skeptics.
The petition was so misleading that the National
Academy of Sciences issued
a news release stating:
“The petition was not
based on a review of the
science of global climate
change, nor were its signers
experts in the field of climate
science.”
Thing is, even though 99
percent of all peer-reviewed
scientific papers agree that
climate change is happening, we don’t have to believe
anyone but ourselves.
Just look around — our
air and oceans are warming,
our glaciers, ice packs and
snowfields are melting, we
see unprecedented droughts,

of your boots to try to scoop up a
crab.
Just as you grab your crab,
some joker in a power boat roars
by at top speed, sending a tsunamisized wake your way.
You, your punch card and
your pen are now soaked in salt
water.
You eventually smear an ink
blot on your punch card.
Theoretically, the punch cards
are returned to the state beancounters, who interpret the
meaning of the ink blots with a
secret method not unlike the
interpretation of the Rorschach
Inkblot Test.
So have a happy April Fools’
Day!
Why not? The joke is on you.

________
Pat Neal is a North Olympic
Peninsula fishing guide and
“wilderness gossip columnist.”
He can be reached at 360-6839867 or email at patnealwildlife@
gmail.com.
Neal’s column appears here
every Wednesday.

AND EMAIL

wildfires, floods, rising sea
levels, ocean acidification
and catastrophic weather
events.
If no action is taken,
potential costs in Washington from climate change
impacts are projected to
reach nearly $10 billion per
year by 2020 from increased
health costs, storm damage,
coastal destruction, rising
energy costs, increased wildfires, drought, and other
impacts (Western Climate
Leadership Initiative, 2010).
We all are custodians of
our resources for us, our
children and their children.
It’s time we owned up to
our responsibilities.
A good start would be to
personally embrace the
pledge endorsed by our local
Olympic Climate Action
organization, which reads:
“I will support and give
my vote to candidates who
commit to take concrete,
timely action to reduce climate-disrupting activities.”
And join OCA at http://

olyclimate.org/contact-us.
Bob Lynette, Sequim

A better name
[This letter is] regarding
the front-page article in the
PDN on March 20, “Court
Next for Water Rule?”
Why does a group that is
trying to develop more land
along the Dungeness River
and use more water call
itself the Olympic Resource
Protection Council?
It should call itself the
Olympic Water Use Council
or the Dungeness Development Council, so people would
understand what it is all about.
It’s good that the [state]
Department of Ecology
denied its request to rework
the water rule, which is to
reduce water use.
Dungeness River water
is limited, especially when
salmon are migrating
upstream in late summer
and early fall.
Edwin R. Johnson,
Port Angeles

ONP seems resigned to let chalet die
OLYMPIC NATIONAL
PARK officials would like you to
share your memories of the
Enchanted Valley Chalet on the
park’s Facebook page.
They are
asking that you
Seabury
send in your
photos and per- Blair Jr.
sonal stories of
the chalet.
That is good,
because unless
something is
done immediately to save
the chalet, photos and stories
are all that we
will have of this
retreat, located in the midst of
Olympic National Park wilderness and listed on the National
Register of Historic Places.
In a news release last week
from park spokeswoman Barb
Maynes, it appears the park is
preparing to let the chalet begin
a soggy float down the North
Fork of the Quinault River.
“This winter’s storms and
high flows have resulted in the
Quinault’s main channel to shift
by at least 15 feet in the past
three months,” the release said.
“As of late last week, the river

has undercut the chalet by
approximately 4 feet.”
The release noted that a park
crew “assessed and documented
the chalet’s condition and
removed equipment, supplies
and hazardous materials.
“The building’s windows were
also removed to both prevent
glass from impacting the river
and downstream natural
resources and to preserve elements of the historic building.”
Let’s ignore the reference to
“hazardous materials” being
stored in a building that is 13
miles by boot trail from a road
and at least 20 miles from the
nearest emergency response
facility.
Instead, we should all thank
the park crew for saving the
downstream natural resources
from all that broken glass.
I imagine that in the not-toodistant-future, we will be able to
view an interpretive display of
chalet windows in some Olympic
National Park visitor center:
“These are all that remains of
the historic Enchanted Valley
Chalet, which was tragically
swept down the Quinault River
in April 2014.”
What is truly disturbing to me
is the park’s benign neglect.

Officer, Pacific West Regional
Office of the National Park Service and concerned organizations
and citizens.”
Call me an ancient fuddyduddy with nothing positive to
contribute, but here’s how I interpret that statement:
“Park staff will continue to
meet with interested partners
until the chalet ceases to be an
issue and sinks into the Quinault
River.”
I figure that for the park
bureaucrats, it’s all about meetings and carefully analyzing the
situation. I can’t imagine the
National Park Service making a
decision on anything without
studying it for at least a year.
JOHN MYERS
By that time, I’m guessing the
The Enchanted Valley Chalet, now threatened by the North Enchanted Valley Chalet — or
whatever is left of it — will be
Fork of the Quinault River, was originally built more than
somewhere between Pyrites
500 feet from the river’s edge eight decades ago —
Creek and Lake Quinault.
before creation of Olympic National Park.

________
It is obvious that officials have
no intention of trying to save a
building that Friends of Olympic
National Park have nominated
as the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation’s 2014 “Most
Endangered” list.
Judge for yourself. Below is
the only paragraph in the news

release that describes what the
park is doing as an emergency
measure to save the chalet:
“Park staff continues to work
closely with partners to develop
the best course of action, both in
the long and short term. Key
partners include the Washington State Historic Preservation

Seabury Blair Jr. is a periodic contributor to the Commentary page.
He is the author of several
books on hiking and skiing in the
Olympics and elsewhere in Washington and Oregon.
Email him at Skiberry@
pwimail.net.

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Razor clam
digging starts
today in state

HOLDING
COURT

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TACOMA — The state Department of Fish and Wildlife says
morning clam digging on Washington’s beaches begins today.
The News Tribune reported
that the first morning clam digging of the season coincides with
the first low tides.
Diggers will have to buy a
2014 license to participate in digs
after this Monday.
Wildlife officials say digging is
best an hour or two before low
tide.
Digging begins today in Twin
Harbors. Long Beach and
Mocrocks are added to the list
Friday.

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The 2014 Sequim
Irrigation Festival float
is rolled out Saturday
evening at 7 Cedars
Casino in Blyn just
before the annual kickoff
dinner at the casino.
The royal court and
onlookers got their first
look at the float created
by Dan Rigg, who is
seen driving.
The royal court, from
left, is Princesses Judi
Villella and Kaylee
Ditlefsen, Queen Katey
Tapia and Princess
Kristina Holtrop.

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Teams
win by
being
steady
CONSISTENCY CAN BE a
blessing or a curse in the game of
golf.
A blessing if
Michael
you have a
repeatable swing
Carman
that can get you
through a round
and home safely,
a curse if you are
doomed to repeat
the same mistakes over and
over again during play.
The good kind
of consistency is
what our area
high school golf
coaches attempt to impart each
spring.
Members of the Port Angeles and
Chimacum boys golf teams took
those lessons to heart last season,
taking home Olympic League and
Nisqually League championships,
respectively.
Coaching consistency, i.e. having
the same coach doing the instruction
each year also is a big part of a program’s success.
Teams that go through coaches
like the University of Oregon athletic teams go through uniforms typically struggle.
That’s why it’s nice to see coaches
stick around and last for decades
like Mitch Black at Chimacum (37
years); Mark Mitrovich at Port
Angeles (28 years) and Gabriel
Tonan at Port Townsend (14th year).
Sequim coach Bill Shea is the relative newcomer at four years, which
by Peninsula coaching standards
counts as a long time.
Good luck to the teams this season and thanks to the courses that
help to grow the game for junior
golfers.

Port Angeles boys
■ Coach: Mark Mitrovich, 28th
year.
■ Last year: The Roughriders
were undefeated Olympic League
champions (8-0) and finished fourth
overall at the Class 2A state championship.
It was the best finish in Mitrovich’s long tenure as the Port Angeles head coach.
Departed senior Joe Barnes, a
two-time Olympic League MVP, finished in a tie for 15th place to pace
the Riders, while fellow senior Garrett Payton tied for 25th and current
junior Alex Atwell tied for 29th.
Departed senior Austin Underwood and current senior Micah
Needham advanced to state but
missed the cut.
■ Top returners: Atwell is the
Port Angeles No. 1, shooting in the
mid to high 30s in practice and carding a 39 in the team’s opening
match victory over Kingston last
week at White Horse Golf Club.
“Alex hits the ball a long ways,
really steady and he works at Peninsula Golf Club so he played a lot
during the offseason,” Mitrovich
said.
“He has good touch around the
greens and can roll [putt] the ball
really well.”
Needham has worked on his
short game in the offseason and is
capable of shooting in the 30’s.
“He’s fired up to get back to state,
make the second round and place,”
Mitrovich said.
Other returners include juniors
Alex Brown and Mason Jackson.
Brown is a lanky 6-foot- 3 player
who “has been coming on lately,”
according to Mitrovich.
Jackson was described as the
team’s most improved player so far
this year going from scoring in the
mid-90s to the mid 80s and becoming a “likely suspect for state,”
Mitrovich said.
“He worked a lot on his chipping
and his swing is just much
smoother, it’s a night and day difference.”
TURN

PORT TOWNSEND — The
Port Townsend softball team
earned its first win of the year
by routing Klahowya 10-1 at
Blue Heron Middle School.
“Defensively, we were very
solid and each game our hitting
has improved immensely,” Redskins coach Kelli Parcher said.
Port Townsend pitchers Gen
Polizzi and Megan Lee combined to hold the Eagles to one
run.
At the plate, Rilke Rutenbeck went 3 for 4 and Malia
Henderson was 3 for 3.
The Redskins (0-2) play at
Kingston (2-1) today.

Port Angeles first baseman Sarah Steinman fields a
TURN TO PREPS/B3 grounder during the Roughriders’ win over Olympic.

Sequim off to explosive start to season
Wolves move to 4-0
by routing Kingston
BY LEE HORTON
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

SEQUIM — The surprise
of the baseball season so far
has been Sequim’s scorching
start.
The Wolves are 4-0 and
have outscored their opponents 44-6 by racking up at
least 10 runs in each game.
They have two shutouts,

Baseball
including a 10-0 win over
Kingston in five innings Monday.
Adding to the amazement
of the start is that the starting lineup is packed with
freshmen and sophomores
who are contributing to
Sequim’s success.
“It’s a young group that
had come together,” coach
Dave Ditlefsen said.

runs and scored two.
The Nos. 3 and 4 hitters
were two of the Wolves’ only
seniors, outfielder Brett
Wright and ace hurler Nick
Johnston, both members of
Young producers
last year’s All-Peninsula team.
Freshman Dylan Lott, who
Johnston drove in two runs
has been starting at shortstop and pitched a one-hitter with
five strikeouts.
and pitched a few innings,
After those two, sophomore
batted leadoff went 2 for 4
Nigel Christian, who made
against the Buccaneers on
Monday with a double, a steal, many varsity starts in 2013,
had one hit and drove in a
a run and an RBI.
Sophomore Evan Hurn bat- run.
ted second and drove in two
TURN TO WOLVES/B2
“We saw this group coming
up, they had a lot of success.
And they’re adjusting to the
varsity level very well so far.”

Hawks play waiting game with Allen
BY JOHN BOYLE
THE [EVERETT] HERALD

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jared Allen visited the Seahawks twice last week and has yet to make a decision
about joining the Super Bowl champions.

RENTON — Jared Allen
apparently needed more than
just the weekend to come to a
decision.
The Seahawks are still waiting to hear from the free agent
defensive end, who visited twice
with the team last week.
Allen’s agent told reporters
Friday that his client was going
to consider the Seattle
Seahawks’ offer over the weekend, but Allen still hadn’t made
up his mind — or at least made
his decision known — as of
Tuesday afternoon.
Earlier in the week,
Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll was on SiriusXM, and said
there was nothing new to report.
“It’s a big business decision
for him, so there’s really not
much to comment about right
now,” Carroll said.
TURN

The Illusion 16U Select Softball team finished third at the Tacoma Opener last
weekend. Nizhoni Wheeler, Sabrina Collins and Kim Hatfield handled the
pitching duties while Natalie Steinman, Nikki Price and Emily Boyd led
Illusion at the plate. After a shaky start and four games Saturday, the team
came back Sunday with a pair of wins before losing in the semifinals. Illusion’s
next tournament is scheduled for April 5-6. The team is, back row from left:
manager Warren Stevens, Makiah Sperry, Kiana Robideau, Nizhoni Wheeler,
Sabrina Collins, Saige Hefton, Sarah Adams and coach Rick Pennington; front
row from left: Brennan Gray, Natalie Steinman, Kylee Reid, Nikki Price, Emily
Boyd, Kim Hatfield and Sierra Robinson

CONTINUED FROM B1 been the most pleasant surprise.”
In a poll conducted by the KitFollowing Christian were
sap Sun, the Olympic League’s
freshman Bailey Early (1 for 3),
coaches voted Sequim to finish
sophomore Daniel Harker (3 for
seventh in the nine-team league.
3, two doubles and two runs),
So far, the Wolves look like
junior Tanner Rhodefer (1 for 3,
contenders for at least a postseatwo runs) and junior Dusty
son berth. But only four games
Bates, who had a hit and two
into the season, it might be too
runs.
early to tell.
Ditlefsen knew Sequim’s
“We still have things we need
pitching was deep and the fieldto work on,” he said. “There will
ing would be improved, but he
be mistakes that young kids
didn’t expect the Wolves to be so
make.”
explosive with their bats.
Sequim could be in for a
“Offensively, we’ve come out
learning experience today on the
hitting,” Ditlefsen said. “That’s
road against North Kitsap (3-1),

PEORIA, Ariz. — The Seattle
Mariners have released lefthander Randy Wolf at his request.
He had raised concerns about
his role with the club after the
first few weeks of the season.
Wolf, who was in camp on a
minor-league deal after missing
last season following Tommy John
surgery, told reporters Tuesday
that he was told he had a spot.
But Wolf ’s concern was
whether he would be with the
team beyond the first 45 days
with two members of Seattle’s
rotation — Hisashi Iwakuma and
Taijuan Walker — not expected to

________
Sports Editor Lee Horton can be
reached at 360-417-3525 or at lhorton@
peninsuladailynews.com.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

be ready until late April.
Wolf said he was asked to sign
a waiver allowing the team to
release him within the first 45
days without paying his full season salary. He declined to do so.
Wolf made five starts this
spring and had a 4.26 ERA in 19
innings.
On Monday, the Mariners
released pitcher Scott Baker.
The 32-year-old right-hander
asked for his release after refusing an assignment to Triple-A
Tacoma.
Baker was 1-1 with a 6.75 ERA
in four spring training starts for
Seattle, allowing nine earned
runs and 16 hits in 12 innings.

SportsRecreation

PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 2014

B3

Carman: Sequim joins PA in league title hunt
CONTINUED FROM B1 Dungeness director of golf,
Bill Shea, fourth year.
Top Newcomers: Aus■ Last year: 5-3, third
tin Peterson, jr.; Avery
in Olympic League.
Koehler, sr.; Koben Temres,
Jesse Francis made it to
fr.; Devun Wahlsten, fr.;
districts last year.
Tyler Nickerson, fr; Logan
■ Top Returners: Jack
Kovelenko, fr; Royce DunShea, so.; Anthony Pinza,
can, fr.; Ben Arnold, fr.
sr.; Travis Priest, jr.;
“I have several newer
Anthony Francis, sr.; Alex
players that want to stay
McCracken, jr.; Henry
late at the course until 6
Markham, sr.
p.m. or 7 p.m. so they are
Shea started making
seeing the work ethic our
the
leap late last season
older players have and are
feeding off of that and they and continued his improveknow what they need to do ment in the offseason.
“He was out there pretty
[to improve],” Mitrovich
much every day in the offsaid.
season working on all
■ Outlook: Topping
last season isn’t something aspects of his game,” Bill
this year’s Roughriders are Shea said of his son.
concerned with.
“He shot a 1-under-par
Instead, the team is
71 at Cedars at Dungeness
focusing on its goal to
this summer and that
repeat as Olympic League
really lit the fire in him.”
champs.
The younger Shea
Mitrovich described the
worked the most on his
team strength as being
medium to long hitters but course management and
his short game and it’s
said the squad needs to
already paying off: he
focus on accuracy to reach
posted a 1-over-par 37 in
its goal.
competition against
If the players can play
Bremerton last week on
up to their potential, a
the Olympic Course at
league title is a possibility
and multiple Riders should Gold Mountain.
make it to state.
Pinza, who filled the
“Getting two or more
point guard position for the
players to the second day
Wolves basketball team,
at state would be great, see has “incredible potential in
if we can get a place as a
his game,” Shea said, addteam and get after it,”
ing that Pinza should get
Mitrovich said.
his scoring average to
around 80 for 18 holes.
Sequim boys
“He’s a great competitor
and just needs to work his
■ Coach: Cedars at

son matchup with Port
Angeles “will likely determine the league championship.”

Port Townsend boys
■ Coach: Gabriel
Tonan, 14th season.
■ Last year: Redskins
won one league match in a
rebuilding year.
■ Top returners: Jack
Bishop, sr.; Zach Glover, jr.;
Austin Khile, so.; Keegan
Khile, so.; Ben Rolland, so.
Bishop has it in him to
shoot in the 70’s per Tonan.
Glover has a “weird
looking putting stroke but
he seems to make them,”
Tonan said.
He’ll need to work on
what Tonan described as “a
STEVE MULLENSKY/FOR PENINSULA DAILY NEWS little truck in his swing”
this season.
Port Townsend’s Patrick Morton rolls a putt in
■ Top newcomers:
for a birdie on the first hole Tuesday against
Lucas Foster, so.; Patrick
Port Angeles at Port Townsend Golf Course.
Morton, fr.
Foster is 6-foot-2 and
already played in varsity
way through the shot, go
“with a little work he can
matches for the Wolves as
one swing at a time and
be a player,” Tonan said.
Shea opens up the fifth
not worry about results.”
Morton needs to work
Priest is a good driver of and sixth varsity positions
on his consistency but has
the ball and Shea described for qualifying before
some game.
matches.
him as “an aggressive
“I’ve seen him shoot 39
■ Outlook: “We think
player who needs to work
on playing a little bit safer.” we have a legit shot at win- and seen him shoot 50 so
ning league and I think we far,” Tonan said.
Francis made it to dis■ Outlook: Tonan is
tricts last year and is dial- could bring 4-5 players to
focusing on guiding his
state,” Shea said.
ing in his game early this
players over the humps in
Sequim has solid depth
season.
and if it can get its 4-5-6
their golf games.
■ Top Newcomers:
players shooting around 42
“There are benchmarks
Arnold Black, so.; Jade
to 47 per nine, a league
in golf like breaking 90 for
Arnold, fr.; Connor Titterness, fr.; Logan Bennett, fr. title isn’t out of the cards.
the first time and then
Black and Arnold have
Shea thinks a late-seathere can be plateaus that

follow but I want to focus
on making the tweaks
these guys need to get over
the hump to achieve the
next goal,” Tonan said.
His team is still pretty
youthful with Bishop the
lone senior, so improving
every match and building
the players’ games for the
future is in the cards this
season for Port Townsend.

Chimacum boys
■ Coach: Mitch Black,
37th year.
■ Last year: Nisqually
League champions after an
undefeated league season
and a tied-for-sixth place
finish at the Class 1A state
tournament.
Departed senior Kevin
Miller finished in a threeway tie for eighth.
■ Top returners: Jack
Hilt, jr.; Dan Rasmussen,
jr.; Marcus Bufford, homeschooled; James Porter, so.
■ Top newcomers:
Chris Bainbridge, so.;
Brandon Naylor, jr.
■ Outlook: Cowboys
are rebuilding this season
having lost their top four
players from last season’s
team.
That said, don’t be surprised if Chimacum surprises and finishes high up
in the standings and if Hilt
places at state.

North Olympic Peninsula
Mountaineers had a rough
doubleheader in Bellingham over the weekend.
North Olympic lost to
Girls Lacrosse
Puyallup 17-0 and to BellMountaineers drop ingham 18-1.
The Mountaineers’ lone
pair on road
goal was scored by Olivia
BELLINGHAM — The Barrell.

Baseball
Olympic 10,
Port Angeles 9
BREMERTON — In
only their second game of
the season, the Roughriders
took the Trojans to the
brink before falling in
Olympic League action.
Port Angeles trailed 9-2
after Olympic plated five
runs in the fifth inning, but
the Riders scored seven
straight runs to even the
score.
Sophomore
Eathen
Boyer drove in the tying
run in the bottom of the
seventh inning.
Boyer was 2 for 5 at the
plate with an RBI. Fellow
sophomore Jace Bohman
had two hits and drove in
three runs.
“Those
sophomores,
Bohman and Boyer, had big

JESSE MAJOR/FOR PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

Port Angeles pitcher Jordan Shepherd delivers to the plate during the
Roughriders’ 10-9 loss to Olympic.
RBIs and clutch hits in our
rally,” Port Angeles coach
Vic Reykdal said of Monday’s game.
Senior Jordan Shepherd
went 3 for 4 with two dou-

Hawks: Intent on keeping core
CONTINUED FROM B1 telling part of that quote.
Yes, the Seahawks would
“We’re very restricted on love to add Allen to their
what we can do. We have a pass rush, and by all
lot of work to get done on accounts there is an offer on
our roster, and a lot of guys the table, but priority No. 1
we’ve got to work with and is still extending players
we’re excited about extend- like free safety Earl Thomas
and cornerback Richard
ing and stuff like that.
“So we have concerns Sherman, and making sure
and not everything is easy enough money is available
and can’t move as swiftly as next offseason to do the
same with Russell Wilson
everyone would like.”
Carroll’s mention of “a when the quarterback is elilot of work to get done on gible to negotiate an extenour roster” and players sion.
Whatever the Seahawks
“we’re excited about extending” is perhaps the most are offering Allen, they’re

doing it with an eye on
retaining their young
nucleus, and if that offer
isn’t enough for Allen after
a weekend of deliberation,
don’t expect Seattle to significantly increase the offer.

2014 compensatory draft
picks, and as expected, the
Seahawks were not one of
the 13 teams awarded picks.
Compensatory picks are
given to teams determined
to have lost more or better
free agents than it acquired
No compensatory picks the previous year, and the
Seahawks made some big
The NFL announced additions in free agency.

DEAR ABBY: I have been married almost 20 years.
Eight years ago, my wife began
an emotional affair with a co-worker.
It lasted a year, until he left the
company.
Although they never had sex,
they did have some physical contact
that most people would consider
inappropriate, and my wife considered ending our marriage because of
the feelings she had for him.
She now says the episode was a
huge mistake and that she loves me
more than ever.
The problem is, she wrote many
entries about him in a journal.
I know she kept writing about
him several years after they lost contact, including saying that she loved
him more than a year after he’d left.
I want my wife to remove the portions of the journal pertaining to this
guy.
She doesn’t want to.
I’m still hurting from this and am
considering counseling, but for now,
what do you think?
Should she get rid of the journal?
Considering
Counseling

by Lynn Johnston

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by G.B. Trudeau

Rose is Rose

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by Bob and Tom Thaves

Abigail
Van Buren

Dear Grieving: Although you
and Maggie weren’t legally married,
you were a couple for some time.
I’m very sorry for your loss.
It would be accurate to refer to
her as your late significant other,
your partner or longtime girlfriend.
I would like to compliment you
for stepping up to care for the girl
when her biological father did not.
And I do have suggestions for
how to respond to anyone insensitive
enough to ask why you would “take
on” a child you didn’t “have to.”
The first would be to ignore the
question.
The second would be to avoid
such a person in the future, and the
third would be to reply, “I love her
like a daughter, want to make sure
she’s secure and provided for, and
that’s why I’m doing it.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
Look, see and follow through.
Your charismatic approach
will win favors and bring you
good fortune. Do whatever it
takes to improve your quality
of living and your relationship
with someone you love. A
change will motivate and
inspire you. 3 stars

SAGITTARIUS (Nov.
22-Dec. 21): Take action and
follow through to honor a
promise made. Someone
may let you down, but that
doesn’t mean you should
lower your standards or do
the same thing. Show off
what you have to offer and
you will make gains. 4 stars

TAURUS (April 20-May
20): Broaden your knowledge and your connections.
Take part in a function that
will add to your experience
and bring you in touch with
people who are beneficial.
Don’t let love or an emotional
situation stand in your way.
2 stars

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.
22): Get involved in projects
and humanitarian causes
you believe in. Your insight
and tenacity will put you in a
key position that will boost
your confidence and help
you gain respect from influential people. Press on and
let your talents shine. 3 stars

CAPRICORN (Dec.
22-Jan. 19): Make sure
you’re stepping forward.
Focus on finishing what you
start and living up to your
word. You’ll be disappointed
if you count on someone to
come through for you. Do
what needs doing and don’t
lose your resolve. 3 stars

CANCER (June 21-July
22): Stand up for your
beliefs. Make decisions
based on your needs. Don’t
allow anyone to interfere or
force you in a direction not
suited to your goals. Follow
the path you feel most comfortable with and you will be
successful. 3 stars
by Hank Ketcham

Pickles

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by Brian Crane

by Eugenia Last

ARIES (March 21-April
19): Favors will be granted.
Mingle and you will meet
people who can help you
advance. Take on a physical
challenge and you will feel
good about the way you look
and feel. Children and elders
will offer insight and honesty.
4 stars

GEMINI (May 21-June
20): Get ready to make a
move. Idle time will lead to
confusion. Re-evaluate and
take action. Love is on the
rise, and the opportunity to
see into someone’s world or
cultural background will help
you make an important decision. 5 stars

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also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was
founded by her mother, the late Pauline Phillips. Letters can be mailed to Dear Abby, P.O.
Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069 or via
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The Last Word in Astrology ❘

by Pat Brady and Don Wimmer

gery.
Complications
set in, and I lost
the only person
who ever mattered,
aside from our little girl.
My question is,
since we were
never married,
how do I refer to
Maggie when
relating what hap-

pened?
I am in the process of adopting
her daughter, and explanations to
strangers are tough.
(“Wow, you’re taking on a child
when you don’t have to?”)
How do I respond to these
remarks?
I know this is a multi-part question, but I have so many unanswered
questions lately, I figured I’d ask you
for an opinion.
Grieving
in Missouri

Dear Abby: I’m a 47-year-old
man who was single until seven
years ago.
Then I met “Maggie,” the most
wonderful woman I had ever known.
She wasn’t the hotsy-totsy onenighter type I was used to.
She was a real woman who fulfilled everything I had ever dreamed
of (including bringing a wonderful
4-year-old little girl into my life).
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picture.
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B5

E-cig liquid presents own woes
Solution highly
poisonous to
small children
BY MATT RICHTEL
THE NEW YORK TIMES

A dangerous new form of a
powerful stimulant is hitting markets nationwide, for sale by the
vial, the gallon and even the barrel.
The drug is nicotine, in its
potent, liquid form — extracted
from tobacco and tinctured with a
cocktail of flavorings, colorings and
assorted chemicals to feed the fastgrowing electronic cigarette industry.
These “e-liquids,” the key ingredients in e-cigarettes, are powerful
neurotoxins.
Tiny
amounts,
whether
ingested or absorbed through the
skin, can cause vomiting and seizures and even be lethal. A teaspoon of even highly diluted e-liquid can kill a small child.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A liquid nicotine solution is
poured into a vaping device
known as an e-cigarette.
But, like e-cigarettes, e-liquids
are not regulated by federal
authorities.
They are mixed on factory
floors and in the back rooms of
shops, and sold legally in stores
and online in small bottles that
are kept casually around the house
for regular refilling of e-cigarettes.
Evidence of the potential dan-

gers is already emerging.
Toxicologists warn that e-liquids pose a significant risk to public health, particularly to children,
who may be drawn to their bright
colors and fragrant flavorings like
cherry, chocolate and bubble gum.
“It’s not a matter of if a child
will be seriously poisoned or
killed,” said Lee Cantrell, director
of the San Diego division of the
California Poison Control System
and a professor of pharmacy at the
University of California, San Francisco.
“It’s a matter of when.”

Accidental poisonings
Reports of accidental poisonings, notably among children, are
soaring.
Since 2011, there appears to
have been one death in the United
States, a suicide by an adult who
injected nicotine.
Nationwide, the number of
cases linked to e-liquids jumped to
1,351 in 2013, a 300 percent
increase from 2012, and the number is on pace to double this year,
according to information from the

National Poison Data System.
Of the cases in 2013, 365 were
referred to hospitals, triple the
previous year’s number.
Examples come from across the
country.
Last month, a 2-year-old girl in
Oklahoma City drank a small bottle of a parent’s nicotine liquid,
started vomiting and was rushed
to an emergency room.
That case and age group is considered typical.
Of the 74 e-cigarette and nicotine poisoning cases called into
Minnesota poison control in 2013,
29 involved children age 2 and
younger.
In Oklahoma, all but two of the
25 cases in the first two months of
this year involved children age 4
and younger.
In terms of the immediate poison risk, e-liquids are far more
dangerous than tobacco because
the liquid is absorbed more quickly,
even in diluted concentrations.
But e-liquids are now available
almost everywhere.
“It is sold all over the place. It is
ubiquitous in society,” Cantrell
said.

New area jobs, but jobless rate rises
BY ROB OLLIKAINEN
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

The North Olympic Peninsula
added 160 jobs in February but
unemployment rates climbed
slightly in Clallam and Jefferson
counties, the state Employment
Security Department reported
Tuesday.
Clallam County added 150 jobs
— 130 in the private sector and 20
in government — as unemployment rose from a revised 9.1 percent in January to a preliminary
9.8 percent last month.
Jefferson County added 20 government jobs but shed 10 in the
private sector, as unemployment
went from 8.7 percent in January
to 9.4 percent in February, accord-

ing to estimates derived from the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Unemployment rates can differ
from trends in the number of jobs
gained or lost because of changes
in the size of the labor force and
because of people who commute to
other counties for work, Employment Security regional labor economist Jim Vleming has said.

Force grows
Clallam County’s labor force
expanded by 300 residents — from
26,990 to 27,290 — in February.
That number includes 2,690 who
were actively seeking work.
Jobless rates don’t count those
who have stopped looking for a
job.

The Clallam County employment breakdown shows a rebound
in the service trades with 150 jobs
added in February. Clallam
County lost 190 service-providing
jobs in January.
Clallam County added 20 jobs
in natural resources and mining
but shed 20 in manufacturing last
month.
Meanwhile, Jefferson County’s
labor force grew by 30 residents in
February to 11,230. The workforce
included 1,050 active job-seekers.
Jefferson County added 30
manufacturing jobs in February
but lost 20 jobs in trade, transportation and utilities, 10 in information and financial activities and
10 in leisure and hospitality.

Briefly
Real-time stock
quotations at
peninsuladailynews.com

Market watch
March 25, 2014

Dow Jones
industrials

16,367.88

Nasdaq
composite

7.88
4,234.27

Standard &
Poor’s 500

1,865.62

Russell
2000

91.19

8.18

-0.18
1,178.05

NYSE diary
Advanced:

1,813

Declined:

1,263

Unchanged:
Volume:

127
3.1 b

Nasdaq diary
Advanced:

1,305

Declined:

1,281

Unchanged:

150

Volume:

2.2
AP

Home prices dip

Unemployment rates were
about 1 percentage point higher in
both counties 13 months ago, at
10.7 percent in Clallam County
and 10.8 percent in Jefferson
County.
Statewide
unemployment
remained at 6.4 percent last
month, while the seasonallyadjusted national unemployment
rate went from 6.6 percent in
January to 6.7 percent in February, Employment Security said.
King County had the lowest
unemployment in the state at 5.2
percent in February.
Pend Oreille County in the
northeast corner of the state had
the highest estimated jobless rate
at 12.6 percent.

WASHINGTON — U.S.
home prices dipped in January
for a third straight month.
The Standard & Poor’s/CaseShiller 20-city home price
index, released Tuesday,
declined 0.1 percent from
December to January, the same
drop as the previous two
months. That figure is not
adjusted for seasonal variations, so the dip partly reflects
weaker winter sales.

Gold, silver
Gold for April delivery
rose 20 cents, or 0.2 percent, to
$1,311.40 an ounce Tuesday.
May silver shed 7 cents, or
0.08 percent, to end at $19.97 an
ounce.
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Port Angeles Landfill Cell Stabilization Project
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Sealed bids for the Port Angeles Landfill Cell Stabilization Project will be received by the Director of Public Works & Utilities at 321 East Fifth Street, P. O.
Box 1150, Port Angeles, Washington 98362, until 2:00 p.m. local time on
Wednesday, April 23, 2014, at which time Bids will be opened and publicly
read at the City Council Chamber.

The Port Angeles Landfill Cell Stabilization Project is a corrective actions plan
to mitigate the potential of refuse discharge into the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
The City has been concerned for more than a decade with ongoing coastal
bluff erosion migrating into the Port Angeles Landfill facility. The corrective action plan for managed retreat will: 1) remove MSW from the failure zone, 2) allow natural feeder bluff processes to continue, and 3) provide stable protection
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$2,300. Call for more the Port Angeles Landfill Cell Stabilization Project is between $10,000,000 and
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Clallam County
Clallam County
Clallam County
Clallam County
Clallam County
No: 14-7-00090-2
Notice and Summons by Publication
(Termination) (SMPB)
SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON
COUNTY OF CLALLAM
JUVENILE COURT
In re the Welfare of:
PACE, CASSIDY LEANN
D.O.B.: 06/14/2007
To: BRIEN ARLEIGH PACE, FATHER, and/or
ANYONE WITH A PATERNAL INTEREST IN THE
CHILD
A Petition to Terminate Parental Rights was filed on
March 3, 2014, A Termination Fact Finding hearing
will be held on this matter on: April 30, 2014 at 9:00
a.m. at CLALLAM COUNTY JUVENILE SERVICES, 1912 W. 18TH STREET, PORT ANGELES,
WA 98363.
You should be present at this hearing.
The hearing will determine if your parental rights to
your child are terminated. If you do not appear at
the hearing, the court may enter an order in your
absence terminating your parental rights.
To request a copy of the Notice, Summons, and
Termination Petition, call DSHS at Port Angeles, at
(360) 565-2240 or Forks DSHS, at (360) 374-3530.
To view information about your rights, including
right to a lawyer, go to www.atg.wa.gov/TRM.aspx.
Dated: 03/13/2014
JUDGE CHRISTOPHER MELLY
Judge/Commissioner
BARBARA CHRISTENSEN
County Clerk
JENNIFER L. CLARK
Deputy Court Clerk
Pub: March 19, 26, April 2, 2014 Legal No. 549687
No: 14-7-00046-5
Notice and Summons by Publication
(Termination) (SMPB)
SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON
COUNTY OF CLALLAM
JUVENILE COURT
In re the Welfare of:
FARNAM, HAILI JOEANN
D.O.B.: 03/27/1998
To: RICHARD LEE FARNAM, FATHER, and/or
ANYONE WITH A PATERNAL INTEREST IN THE
CHILD
A Petition to Terminate Parental Rights was filed on
January 31, 2014, A Termination Fact Finding hearing will be held on this matter on: April 30, 2014 at
9:00 a.m. at CLALLAM COUNTY JUVENILE SERVICES, 1912 W. 18TH STREET, PORT ANGELES,
WA 98363.
You should be present at this hearing.
The hearing will determine if your parental rights to
your child are terminated. If you do not appear at
the hearing, the court may enter an order in your
absence terminating your parental rights.
To request a copy of the Notice, Summons, and
Termination Petition, call DSHS at Port Angeles, at
(360) 565-2240 or Forks DSHS, at (360) 374-3530.
To view information about your rights, including
right to a lawyer, go to www.atg.wa.gov/TRM.aspx
Dated: 03/13/2014
JUDGE CHRISTOPHER MELLY
Judge/Commissioner
BARBARA CHRISTENSEN
County Clerk
JENNIFER L. CLARK
Deputy Court Clerk
Pub: March 19, 26, April 2, 2014 Legal No. 549716
S U P E R I O R C O U RT O F WA S H I N G TO N F O R
CLALLAM COUNTY In re the Estate of Michael H.
M c M a n u s , D e c e a s e d . N O. 1 4 - 4 - 0 0 0 7 8 - 2
P R O B AT E N OT I C E TO C R E D I TO R S R C W
11.40.030 The Co-Personal Representatives
named below have been appointed as Co-Personal
Representatives of this estate. Any person having
a claim against the decedent must, before the time
the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the
manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving
on or mailing to the Co-Personal Representatives
or the Co-Personal Representatives’ attorney at the
address stated below a copy of the claim and filing
the original of the claim with the court in which the
probate proceedings were commenced. The claim
must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty
days after the Co-Personal Representatives served
or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after
the date of first publication of the notice. If the
claim is not presented within this time frame, the
claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is
effective as to claims against both the decedent’s
probate and nonprobate assets.
Date of First Publication:
March 19, 2014
Co-Personal Representatives: Keith M. McManus
Dung Mythi McManus
Attorney for co-Personal Representatives:
Stephen C. Moriarty, WSBA #18810
Address for mailing or service:
PLATT IRWIN LAW FIRM
403 S. Peabody, Port Angeles, WA 98362
(360) 457-3327
Court of Probate Proceedings:
Clallam County Superior Court
Probate Cause Number: 14-4-00078-2
Pub: March 19, 26, April 2, 2014 Legal No. 549157
PROBATE NO. 14 4 00209 1
PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS
(RCW 11.40.030)
SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON
FOR KITSAP COUNTY
In re the Estate of DENNIS WILCOX, Deceased.
The personal representative named below has
been appointed as personal representative of this
estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent that arose before the decedent’s death must,
before the time the claim would be barred by any
otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present
the claim in the manner as provided in RCW
11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the personal
representative or the personal representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the
claim and filing the original of the claim with the
court. The claim must be presented within the later
of: (1) thirty days after the personal representative
served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(3); or (2) four months
after the date of first publication of the notice. If the
claim is not presented within this time frame, the
claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in Ch. 11.40 RCW. This bar is effective as to
claims against both the decedent’s probate and non
probate assets.
Date of first publication: 3-26, 2014.
Kathleen E. Graf,
Personal Representative
c/o Gerald B. Treacy, Jr.
Treacy Law Firm, PLLC
PO Box 6450
Poulsbo, WA 98370
Attorneys for Estate:
Gerald B. Treacy, Jr., WSBA #12432
Matthew A. Lind, WSBA #37179
Treacy Law Firm, PLLC
Pub: March 26, April 2, 9, 2014 Legal No. 551409
NO: 14 4 00060 0
PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE
OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE
COUNTY OF CLALLAM
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF:
CHIEKO S. CLIFT Deceased
The personal representative named below has
been appointed as personal representative of this
estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be
barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided
in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the
personal representative or the personal representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of
the claim and filing the original of the claim with the
court in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the
later of: (1) Thirty days after the personal representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as
provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four
months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time
frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060.
This bar is effective as to claims against both the
decedent’s probate and non probate assets.
Date of First Publication: March 26, 2014
CAROL MAIN Personal Representative
Attorney for Personal Representative and address
for mailing or service:
Greg Richardson WSBA # 8680
1407 East 3rd St.
PO Box 2029
Port Angeles, WA 98362
(360) 457- 1669
Clallam County Superior Cour t Probate Cause
Number: 14 4 00060 0
Pub: March 26, April 2, 9, 2013 Legal No. 551372

FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF PORT ANGELES
v. BLANEY LOAN NO. 2011617606 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Pursuant
to the Revised Code of Washington Chapter 61.24, et seq. I. NOTICE IS
HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned Trustee will on the 25th day of April,
2014, at the hour of 10:00 a.m. in the main lobby of the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 East Fourth Street in the city of Port Angeles, state of Washington,
sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable at the time of
sale, the following described real property, situated in the county of Clallam,
state of Washington, to-wit: LOT 18 AND THE EAST HALF LOT 17 IN BLOCK
1 OF PUGET SOUND CO-OPERATIVE COLONY’S SUBDIVISION OF THE
TOWNSITE OF PORT ANGELES, AS RECORDED IN VOLUME 1 OF PLATS,
PAGE 5, RECORDS OF CLALLAM COUNTY, WASHINGTON SITUATE IN
CLALLAM COUNTY, STATE OF WASHINGTON. commonly known as 1235
E. Columbia Street, Port Angeles, Washington, which is subject to that certain
Deed of Trust dated June 15, 2005, recorded June 20, 2005, under Auditor’s
File Number 2005-1158841, records of Clallam County, Washington, from
SHERYL L. BLANEY and STEPHEN BLANEY, wife and husband, Grantors, to
CLALLAM TITLE COMPANY, as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of
FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF PORT ANGELES
as Beneficiary. II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of
Trust or the Beneficiary’s successor is now pending to seek satisfaction of the
obligation in any court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the
obligation secured by the Deed of Trust. III. The defaults for which this foreclosure is made are as follows: Failure to pay when due the following amounts
which are now in arrears: Five monthly payments of $835.87 each for the
months of September 2013 through January 2014: $4,179.35 Four monthly
late charges of $32.79 each for the months of September through December
2013: $131.16 TOTAL MONTHLY PAYMENTS AND LATE CHARGES:
$4,310.51 IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust
is: Principal of $122,659.60, together with interest as provided in the note or
other instrument secured from the 1st day of August, 2013, and such other
costs and fees as are due under the note or other instrument secured, and as
are provided by statute. V. The above described real property will be sold to
satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as
provided by statute. The sale will be made without warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances on the 25th day of April,
2014. The defaults referred to in paragraph III must be cured by the 14th day
of April, 2014 (11 days before the sale date), to cause a discontinuance of the
sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time on or before
the 14th day of April, 2014 (11 days before the sale date), the defaults as set
forth in paragraph III are cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. The
sale may be terminated any time after the 14th day of April, 2014 (11 days before the sale date), and before the sale by the Borrower, the Grantor or the
Grantor’s successor(s) in interest, any guarantor, or the holder of any recorded
junior lien or encumbrance paying the entire principal and interest secured by
the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees, and advances, if any, made pursuant to
the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults.
VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to
the Borrower and Grantor or the Grantor’s successor(s) in interest at the following addresses: Stephen Blaney & Sheryl Blaney 14408 E. 51st Dr. Yuma,
AZ 85367 Stephen Blaney & Sheryl Blaney P.O. Box 581 Port Angeles, WA
98362 Resident(s) of Property Subject to Foreclosure Sale 1235 E. Columbia
Street Port Angeles, WA 98362 by both first class and certified mail on the 3rd
day of December, 2013, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee. A
written Notice of Default was also posted in a conspicuous place on the premises located at 1235 E. Columbia Street, Port Angeles, Washington on the 3rd
day of December, 2013, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such posting. VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide
in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any
time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor
and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in
the above described property. IX. Anyone having any objection to the sale on
any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to
those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW
61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper
grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR
TENANTS The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the
property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the
Deed of Trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the Deed of
Trust, including occupants other than tenants. After the 20th day following the
sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants other than tenants by summary proceedings under the Unlawful Detainer Act, Chapter 59.12 RCW. Pursuant to the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2009, a tenant or subtenant in possession of the property that is purchased at the trustee’s sale, under
any bona fide lease entered into before the notice of foreclosure, has the right
to occupy the property until the end of the remaining term of the lease, except
that the purchaser (or a successor in interest) who will occupy the property as
a primary residence may terminate the lease by giving written notice to the
tenant at least ninety (90) days before the effective date of such notice. The
purchaser (or a successor in interest) may give a written notice to a tenant to
vacate the property at least ninety (90) days before the effective date of such
notice to a bona fide month-to-month tenant or subtenant in possession of the
property, or a tenant or subtenant in possession of the property without a bona
fide lease. A lease or tenancy shall be considered bona fide only if: (1) the tenant is not the mortgagor/grantor or the child, spouse, or parent of the mortgagor/grantor under the foreclosed contract/Deed of Trust; (2) the lease or tenancy was the result of an arms-length transaction; and (3) the lease or tenancy
requires the receipt of rent that is not substantially less than fair market rent for
the property or the rent is reduced or subsidized due to a Federal, State, or local subsidy. If a tenant’s occupancy of the property is not under a bona fide
lease entered into before the notice of foreclosure (as defined by the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act), the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. DATED this 9th day of January,
2014. PLATT IRWIN LAW FIRM, TRUSTEE By: Christopher J. Riffle 403
South Peabody Port Angeles, WA 98362 (360) 457-3327
Pub: March 26, April 16, 2014
Legal No. 550337

FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF PORT ANGELES
v. SPISAK LOAN NO. 2028020607 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Pursuant
to the Revised Code of Washington Chapter 61.24, et seq. I. NOTICE IS
HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned Trustee will on the 25th day of April,
2014, at the hour of 10:00 a.m. in the main lobby of the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 East Fourth Street in the city of Port Angeles, state of Washington,
sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable at the time of
sale, the following described real property, situated in the county of Clallam,
state of Washington, to-wit: LOT 10 OF ALPINE MEADOW, AS PER PLAT
THEREOF RECORDED IN VOLUME 14 OF PLATS, PAGE 22, RECORDS
OF CLALLAM COUNTY, WASHINGTON. SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF
CLALLAM, STATE OF WASHINGTON. commonly known as 131 Alpine Loop,
Sequim, Washington, which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated June
12, 2009, recorded June 16, 2009, under Auditor’s File Number 20091238457, records of Clallam County, Washington, from NICHOLAS SPISAK
and JESSICA SPISAK, husband and wife, joint tenants with rights of survivorship and not as tenants in common or community property, Grantors, to CLALLAM TITLE COMPANY, as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of FIRST
FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF PORT ANGELES as
Beneficiary. II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust
or the Beneficiary’s successor is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust. III. The defaults for which this foreclosure
is made are as follows: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which
are now in arrears: Six monthly payments of $1,052.74 each for the months of
August 2013 through January 2014: $6,316.44 Five monthly late charges of
$41.87 each for the months of August through December 2013: $209.35 TOTAL MONTHLY PAYMENTS AND LATE CHARGES: $6,525.79 IV. The sum
owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: Principal of
$145,746.29, together with interest as provided in the note or other instrument
secured from the 1st day of July, 2013, and such other costs and fees as are
due under the note or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute. V. The above described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of
sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute.
The sale will be made without warranty, express or implied, regarding title,
possession, or encumbrances on the 25th day of April, 2014. The defaults referred to in paragraph III must be cured by the 14th day of April, 2014 (11 days
before the sale date), to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be
discontinued and terminated if at any time on or before the 14th day of April,
2014 (11 days before the sale date), the defaults as set forth in paragraph III
are cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. The sale may be terminated any time after the 14th day of April, 2014 (11 days before the sale date),
and before the sale by the Borrower, the Grantor or the Grantor’s successor(s)
in interest, any guarantor, or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance paying the entire principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust,
plus costs, fees, and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written Notice
of Default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and
Grantor or the Grantor’s successor(s) in interest at the following addresses:
Nicholas Spisak and Jessica Spisak 1775 Burns Road Milford, MI 48381
Nicholas Spisak and Jessica Spisak 131 Alpine Loop Sequim, WA 98382
Resident(s) of Property Subject to Foreclosure Sale 131 Alpine Loop Sequim,
WA 98382 by both first class and certified mail on the 3rd day of December,
2013, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee. A written Notice of
Default was also posted in a conspicuous place on the premises located at
131 Alpine Loop, Sequim, Washington on the 3rd day of December, 2013, and
the Trustee has possession of proof of such posting. VII. The Trustee whose
name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII.
The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by,
through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above described property. IX. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will
be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a
lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a
lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS The purchaser at the
Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the Deed of Trust (the owner) and
anyone having an interest junior to the Deed of Trust, including occupants other than tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the
right to evict occupants other than tenants by summary proceedings under the
Unlawful Detainer Act, Chapter 59.12 RCW. Pursuant to the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2009, a tenant or subtenant in possession of the
property that is purchased at the trustee’s sale, under any bona fide lease entered into before the notice of foreclosure, has the right to occupy the property
until the end of the remaining term of the lease, except that the purchaser (or a
successor in interest) who will occupy the property as a primary residence may
terminate the lease by giving written notice to the tenant at least ninety (90)
days before the effective date of such notice. The purchaser (or a successor in
interest) may give a written notice to a tenant to vacate the property at least
ninety (90) days before the effective date of such notice to a bona fide monthto-month tenant or subtenant in possession of the property, or a tenant or subtenant in possession of the property without a bona fide lease. A lease or tenancy shall be considered bona fide only if: (1) the tenant is not the mortgagor/grantor or the child, spouse, or parent of the mortgagor/grantor under the
foreclosed contract/Deed of Trust; (2) the lease or tenancy was the result of an
arms-length transaction; and (3) the lease or tenancy requires the receipt of
rent that is not substantially less than fair market rent for the property or the
rent is reduced or subsidized due to a Federal, State, or local subsidy. If a tenant’s occupancy of the property is not under a bona fide lease entered into before the notice of foreclosure (as defined by the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act), the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in
accordance with RCW 61.24.060. DATED this 9th day of January, 2014.
PLATT IRWIN LAW FIRM, TRUSTEE By: Christopher J. Riffle 403 South Peabody Port Angeles, WA 98362 (360) 457-3327
Pub: March 26, April 16, 2014
Legal No. 550339

Briefly . . .
Intro class to
needle felting
offered in PA
PORT ANGELES — An
“Introduction to Needle Felting” class will take place at
the Cabled Fiber Studio, 106
N. Laurel St., from 1 p.m. to
4:30 p.m. this Saturday and
again Saturday, April 12.
The cost is $35.
Join artist Lauralee

DeLuca to learn the basics
of making a piece of “fiber
art.”
For more information,
phone 360-504-2233, email
info@cabledfiberstudio.com
or visit www.cabledfiber
studio.com.

Sequim-Dungeness Way, at
1:30 p.m. Saturday.
The presentation is free
and open to the public.
Tipton will talk on why
seed is grown at Nash’s and
how the farm has developed
and selected different varieties for both seed sales and
vegetable production.
“For Nash’s farm to
remain viable, we need seed
that is suited to our climate
and organic production
methods,” Tipton said.

lemon nut bread, poppy seed
bread and more.
Breads will be baked in
the Sequim Masonic Lodge
kitchen Saturday, April 12.
The order deadline is
Monday, April 7.
Send order and check to
Sequim Rainbow Girls, c/o
Mary Miller, 830 N. Minstrel
Road, Sequim, WA 98382.
Orders will be available
for pickup at the Masonic
Lodge, 700 S. Fifth Ave.,
from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 12.
Phone Mary Miller at
360-417-9236 for details.
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Chris Tipton checks on
germination of seed in
one of Nash’s Farm
Store’s fields in May.
He will talk Saturday
about why seed is
grown at Nash’s in
Sequim.